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    >   In a docstring, if I have :
    >
    >   "`nil' if blahblah, `t' otherwise.",

    nil and t in docstrings shouldn't be quoted. This convention is
    described somewhere in the Emacs manual.

That is true.  However, there is still the question of what to do
about other one-letter symbol names, should they appear.