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