From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 23417@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23417: 25.1.50; Elisp manual: document gotcha about new objects and quoting
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:48:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9b456qx.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e82b3p1.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:04:42 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I thought we already specified (somewhere in the manual) that a quoted
> list often doesn't give us a new list, but after looking around for
> seven seconds, I can't find it. What section would this info go in?
This is in Self-Evaluating Forms (now).
>> 4. Please correct misleading text, such as this from `Creating Hash',
>> so as not to give the impression that you get a new object for each
>> occurrence of a quoted constant.
>>
>> You can also create a new hash table using the printed
>> representation for hash tables.
>>
>> Here is one example of confusion wrt the gotcha for #s:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/q/36964728/729907
>
> Yes, that seems pretty misleading -- the natural interpretation of that
> (and the example) is that you can use it exactly as is done in that code
> snippet. Which you can't. Does anybody want to rephrase the "Creating
> Hash" node in hash.texi?
I've now clarified this in Emacs 28.
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2016-05-01 21:09 bug#23417: 25.1.50; Elisp manual: document gotcha about new objects and quoting Drew Adams
2019-07-28 15:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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