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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2021-10-27 14:33:42 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2021-10-27 14:33:42 +0300 |
| commit | d353fc4a005472f6ac4ac3d530cee18a51c00243 (patch) | |
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; 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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diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi index 6ecd552ebb0..391b6d9c590 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 |