bug#6496: documentation manual missing "autoload object" in "What Is a Function" node

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com> writes:

> Does not mention "autoload objects" as a "type" of function.
>
> It should do so and make an xref to (info "(elisp)Autoload Type").
>
> Following is an attempt at documenting the object:
>
> ,----
> |
> | "autoload object"
> | An "autoload object" stores a function definition in a placeholder
> | for the real definition of a symbol-function.  The autoload object
> | says that the real definition is found in a file of Lisp code which
> | should be loaded when necessary.  An autoload object is stored as a
> | list with the first element being the symbol `autoload'.
> |
> `----

I've installed a similar definition in the Emacs 24 manual.

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