From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#60639: Improvement to the Wording of GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 04:56:18 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83fs3r34f1.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17804"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: one.last.kiss@outlook.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, 60639@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 06 13:57:21 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qdr9t-0004Py-LV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:57:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdr9a-0007no-Uq; 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Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Wed, 6 Sep 2023 04:56:18 -0700 In-Reply-To: <83fs3r34f1.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:269521 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > I don't mind installing it, but IMO its wording needs some > improvement. Here's what I suggest to install: > > In most cases, an object's printed representation is also a read > syntax for the object. However, some types have no read syntax, since > it does not make sense to enter objects of these types as constants in > a Lisp program. These objects are printed in @dfn{hash notation}, > which consists of the characters @samp{#<}, a descriptive string > (typically the type name followed by the name of the object), and a > closing @samp{>}. (This is called ``hash notation'' because it > begins with the @samp{#} character, known as ``hash'' or ``number > sign''). For example: Looks good to me.