On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 09:44:15AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:49:16 +0600
> > 
> > This should be:
> > 
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > This is almost equivalent to (setf PLACE (cons NEWELT PLACE)),
> > except that PLACE is evaluated only once (after NEWELT).
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Why not just "This is similar to"?

Back to topic, yes. It seems that this phrase is too jargon-ish to be
easily understandable to everyone.
> 
> > Anyway, I enjoy occasionally finding things like "morally equivalent" in
> > Emacs.
> 
> Yeah, it's amazing how much noise can an innocent phrase cause around
> here.

Documentation is hard, after all.

Cheers
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t