bug#64692: Better descriptions of Cons Cells and Dotted Notation with real-life syntax

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------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 at 5:20 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:


> > The node containing your example is located in the Emacs Lisp reference
> > manual, which contains two adequate descriptions of both dotted lists
> > and dotted pair notation.
> 
> 
> Yes, it does.
> But a reader of this menu-syntax node
> won't have a clue about that. Please
> provide a cross-reference to it.
> 
> Defining menus is one of the first
> places a new Elisp user will run into
> dot-notation syntax.
> 
> Another is the complex syntax for
> font-lock. There too a reader will
> need to understand dot notation to
> make sense of the syntax spec.
> 
> > I see no problem here; closing.
> 
> That's too bad.

It is too bad for us.  With people who should know better barking orders
from their lofty place that everything is fine.  Same as the socialist 
politburo  in the late 80's.  A system fucked up beyond all recognition.