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bug#60639: Improvement to the Wording of GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual


From: Stefan Kangas
Subject: bug#60639: Improvement to the Wording of GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 04:56:18 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I don't mind installing it, but IMO its wording needs some
> improvement.  Here's what I suggest to install:
>
>      In most cases, an object's printed representation is also a read
>    syntax for the object.  However, some types have no read syntax, since
>    it does not make sense to enter objects of these types as constants in
>    a Lisp program.  These objects are printed in @dfn{hash notation},
>    which consists of the characters @samp{#<}, a descriptive string
>    (typically the type name followed by the name of the object), and a
>    closing @samp{>}.  (This is called ``hash notation'' because it
>    begins with the @samp{#} character, known as ``hash'' or ``number
>    sign'').  For example:

Looks good to me.





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