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emacs-28 d353fc4: ; Explain why "kinds of atom" isn't a typo


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: emacs-28 d353fc4: ; Explain why "kinds of atom" isn't a typo
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 07:34:36 -0400 (EDT)

branch: emacs-28
commit d353fc4a005472f6ac4ac3d530cee18a51c00243
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

    ; Explain why "kinds of atom" isn't a typo
    
    * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Lisp Atoms): Add a comment
    explaining why "kinds of atom" isn't a typo.
---
 doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi 
b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
index 6ecd552..391b6d9 100644
--- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
+++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
@@ -1162,6 +1162,10 @@ computer.  Often, people use the term @dfn{expression}
 indiscriminately.  (Also, in many texts, the word @dfn{form} is used
 as a synonym for expression.)
 
+@c This and the next paragraph say ``kinds of atom'', but that is not
+@c a typo, just slightly ``old-fashioned wording which adds a fillip
+@c of interest to it'', and ``is more elegant writing'', according to
+@c RMS.
 Incidentally, the atoms that make up our universe were named such when
 they were thought to be indivisible; but it has been found that physical
 atoms are not indivisible.  Parts can split off an atom or it can



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