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: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 16:38:55 -0700 Message-ID: References: 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="13714"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 60639@debbugs.gnu.org To: Xie Shynur Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 06 01:40:23 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 1qdfeg-0003OI-Ue for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:40:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdfeV-0006DZ-Qh; 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Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Tue, 5 Sep 2023 16:38:55 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Xie Shynur's message of "Sat, 7 Jan 2023 19:41:17 +0000") 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:269435 Archived-At: tags 60639 wontfix close 60639 thanks Xie Shynur writes: > In the section 2.1 "Printed Representation and Read Syntax" > (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Printed-Representation.html), > word "hash notation" is used to refer to the symbol "#". > But it may well confuse non-native English speakers, because the "hash" is also associated with "hash function". > > A better name for "#" is "number sign". I don't think "number sign" is very clear, and to be honest I think our target audience should have to learn that "#" is called a hash. So we won't be making this change. Sorry. Closing this as wontfix.