From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reference to ‘alist’ in Emacs Lisp Manual without previous explanation
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:05:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <833626mmw7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ft66lsxm.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (message from Pankaj Jangid on Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:10:21 +0530)
> From: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:10:21 +0530
>
> I am reading the Emacs Lisp Manual from beginning and
> sequencially. Found reference to ‘alist’ in section 2.4.12 Hash Table
> Type without any previous explanation.
>
> Either a brief summary should be provided before this, probably near
> 2.4.6 Cons Cell and List Types or a cross-reference should be added.
If you are reading the manual in order, you should have read 2.4.6.3
"Association List Type", where "alist" is explained, before you got to
2.4.12. How come you didn't see that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-22 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 5:40 Reference to ‘alist’ in Emacs Lisp Manual without previous explanation Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-22 6:42 ` Subject: " Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-22 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-10-22 15:31 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-23 7:22 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-23 10:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 15:10 ` Pankaj Jangid
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