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Re: Reference to ‘alist’ in Emacs Lisp Manual without previous explanati
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Reference to ‘alist’ in Emacs Lisp Manual without previous explanation |
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Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:05:28 +0300 |
> From: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:10:21 +0530
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> I am reading the Emacs Lisp Manual from beginning and
> sequencially. Found reference to ‘alist’ in section 2.4.12 Hash Table
> Type without any previous explanation.
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> Either a brief summary should be provided before this, probably near
> 2.4.6 Cons Cell and List Types or a cross-reference should be added.
If you are reading the manual in order, you should have read 2.4.6.3
"Association List Type", where "alist" is explained, before you got to
2.4.12. How come you didn't see that?