From: Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 9482@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9482: specific manual text suggestion
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:25:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM=K+ip2X0h4=jXd81V_O29_xrnJDObnJCe2hLhjS3Pwj94F=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM=K+iqk3bdnru=LrsnyWqCWYF3WTh6keuh-1wRJOs39_R3uZg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Stefan,
As I mentioned in this bug. The manual already has an example of this
trap in the nconc section. Maybe just a pointer to it.
So my suggestion for specific text would be:
"WARNING: '(a . b) is not short-hand for (cons 'a 'b). The former
does not cons. Quoting should be reserved for constants that will
*NEVER* change. See <link>nconc</link> for example of unexpected
results when a quoted object is modified."
My terminology may be not quite right, but if I read something like
this, the difference would be much clearer.
--
Le
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-13 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-12 15:01 bug#9482: Documentation bug: Emacs Lisp Manual should say quoting does not cons explicitly in quoting section. related to bug#9469 Le Wang
2011-09-13 13:25 ` Le Wang [this message]
2011-09-16 14:14 ` bug#9482: specific manual text suggestion Stefan Monnier
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