Re: master ac1d15e95c 1/2: ; * src/data.c (Fash): More precise doc string

[Mattias Engdegård]

19 juli 2022 kl. 16.26 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

>  . it requires the reader to understand that shifting, multiplication,
>    and division are equivalent
>  . it requires the reader to understand the notion of "rounding down"

You certainly don't think highly of elisp programmers...

> How about explaining in simple words what this does to positive and
> negative values shifted left and right?
> 
> One possible way to explain that is what the ELisp manual does.

The manual uses the same definition as the doc string now uses.
But let's try once more:

Shifting left one step multiplies the value by two.
Shifting right one step divides the value by two, after first decrementing the 
value by one if it was odd.