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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 18957@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18957: 25.0.50; document #: in Elisp manual
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:02:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twijnnrl.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80a3c571-f8a5-46ba-95e9-7da688383381@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 5 Nov 2014 08:43:50 -0800 (PST)")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> `#:' should be documented properly in the Elisp manual.  There are just
> a few in-passing references to it, which do not explain it.
>
> The Lisp reader should be documented well, from a user point of view,
> with everything affecting it explained - preferably in one place.
>
> That includes `#<', `#:', `#N=', `#N#', `#@COUNT', `#$', `#.', comments,
> number syntax (including non-10 radix), \-escaped newlines and spaces,
> hash tables.

I think most of these are explained in the sections where the objects
they describe appears, but it would be nice to have a section that just
describes them all, yes.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-30 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-05 16:43 bug#18957: 25.0.50; document #: in Elisp manual Drew Adams
2016-04-30 15:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-12 18:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-12 19:04   ` Noam Postavsky
2019-10-12 19:15     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-12 19:25   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-12 19:37     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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