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From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
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Subject: Re: datatypes in Elisp Info: mention "things" for which there is no
	"thing" datatype - e.g. faces
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:41:33 -0500 (CDT)
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Miles Bader wrote:

   I tend to think of datatypes in lisp as being disjoint categories of
   values; a value can only every have one datatype.

It can only have one _primitive_ data type (returned by type-of), but
it can have tons of data types.  See `(elisp)Lisp Data Types' and 
`(elisp)Type Predicates'.

Sincerely,

Luc.