[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/intro.texi

[Richard M. Stallman]

Index: emacs/lispref/intro.texi
diff -u emacs/lispref/intro.texi:1.33 emacs/lispref/intro.texi:1.34
--- emacs/lispref/intro.texi:1.33       Mon May  1 13:30:59 2006
+++ emacs/lispref/intro.texi    Tue May  2 00:08:51 2006
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
 addressed as ``you''.  ``The user'' is the person who uses Lisp
 programs, including those you write.
 
address@hidden fonts
address@hidden fonts in this manual
   Examples of Lisp code are formatted like this: @code{(list 1 2 3)}.
 Names that represent metasyntactic variables, or arguments to a function
 being described, are formatted like this: @var{first-number}.
@@ -187,14 +187,14 @@
 there is no way to determine which representation was actually written
 by the programmer.
 
-  In this manual, we use @code{()} when we wish to emphasize that it
-means the empty list, and we use @code{nil} when we wish to emphasize
+  In this manual, we write @code{()} when we wish to emphasize that it
+means the empty list, and we write @code{nil} when we wish to emphasize
 that it means the truth value @var{false}.  That is a good convention to use
 in Lisp programs also.
 
 @example
 (cons 'foo ())                ; @r{Emphasize the empty list}
-(not nil)                     ; @r{Emphasize the truth value @var{false}}
+(setq foo-flag nil)           ; @r{Emphasize the truth value @var{false}}
 @end example
 
 @cindex @code{t}, uses of