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Re: [DOC] About Lisp Data Types


From: Kevin Vigouroux
Subject: Re: [DOC] About Lisp Data Types
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:31:24 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:00:16 +0200
>> From:  Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
>> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>>     In other languages, an expression is text; it has no other form.  In
>>     Lisp, an expression is primarily a Lisp object and only secondarily the
>>     text that is the object’s read syntax.  Often there is no need to
>>     emphasize this distinction, but you must keep it in the back of your
>>     mind, or you will occasionally be very confused.
>> 
>> • An expression is a Lisp object which gives its meaning.
>> • An expression cannot be understood in its original form (text).
>> 
>> It makes no sense at first.
>
> If you read the manual's text for what it is, it makes perfect sense.
> The two bullets are your own, they are not in the text.
>

I'm just trying to give my feedback as recommended in the Elisp manual.
But on the other hand, rewriting the text can become difficult.
-- 
Best regards,
Kevin Vigouroux



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