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bug#31683: emacs-lisp-intro.texi - opportunity to link eintr to elisp
From: |
Van L |
Subject: |
bug#31683: emacs-lisp-intro.texi - opportunity to link eintr to elisp |
Date: |
Sat, 2 Jun 2018 23:30:35 +1000 |
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
>> From: Van L <van@scratch.space>
>> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 20:39:49 +1000
>>
>> The footnote at line 2150 *indirectly* links to (elisp) Printed
>> Representation, which details what an expression is.
>>
>> : 8cda6f8f44b (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 2150) learn how to read
>> it.@footnote{@code{(quote hello)} is an expansion of
>
> I don't think I agree: the relation to expressions is too far-fetched
> here.
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
8cda6f8f44b (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1151) The printed
representation of both atoms and lists are called
8cda6f8f44b (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1152) @dfn{symbolic
expressions} or, more concisely, @dfn{s-expressions}.
8cda6f8f44b (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1153) The word
@dfn{expression} by itself can refer to either the printed
8cda6f8f44b (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1154) representation, or to
the atom or list as it is held internally in the
8cda6f8f44b (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1155) computer. Often,
people use the term @dfn{expression}
8cda6f8f44b (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1156) indiscriminately.
(Also, in many texts, the word @dfn{form} is used
8cda6f8f44b (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1157) as a synonym for
expression.)
b8d4c8d0e93 doc/lispref/objects.texi (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 95) In
other languages, an expression is text; it has no other form. In
b8d4c8d0e93 doc/lispref/objects.texi (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 96)
Lisp, an expression is primarily a Lisp object and only secondarily the
b8d4c8d0e93 doc/lispref/objects.texi (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 97) text
that is the object's read syntax. Often there is no need to
b8d4c8d0e93 doc/lispref/objects.texi (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 98)
emphasize this distinction, but you must keep it in the back of your
b8d4c8d0e93 doc/lispref/objects.texi (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 99)
mind, or you will occasionally be very confused.
#+END_EXAMPLE
Anyway. I find the above two snippets useful to link.
>> (I will re-open this bug number for future opportunities to link eintr,
>> elisp after it is closed.)
>
> Please don't, as each issue should be a separate bug report.
I won’t.