Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: raman <raman@google.com>
> Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:21:37 -0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Let me ask you the question in reverse -- what in that *help* buffer
> tells you that this is a string and not a symbol?

It doesn't.  It tells me it's a symbol.  Why? because of the way it is
quoted: with single quotes, not double quotes.  Single quotes is how
we mark symbols in doc strings.

> Also, this is not the first time a problem is being dismissed as "it
> exists elsewhere so it's not a problem"  that in general is more likely
> to turn away contributors to the project than anything else.

I'm sorry, but where do you see a dismissal?  I was saying that if
there is a problem with that doc string, it exists with many more.