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Re: [DOC] About Lisp Data Types


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [DOC] About Lisp Data Types
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:18:13 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> It's a matter of perspective. Personally, I couldn't continue reading
> the Emacs manual because I couldn't understand the numerous references
> to Elisp. And the tutorial I did not adhere to, and believe it or not,
> the Emacs Lisp reference manual finally did the trick.

The problem you described seemed to be around understanding one of the
core ideas of Lisp, whereas the ELisp reference manual doesn't really
aim to teach Lisp.  Maybe the elisp-intro manual gives a more
approachable presentation?


        Stefan




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