bug#23417: 25.1.50; Elisp manual: document gotcha about new objects and quoting

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I thought we already specified (somewhere in the manual) that a quoted
> list often doesn't give us a new list, but after looking around for
> seven seconds, I can't find it.  What section would this info go in?

This is in Self-Evaluating Forms (now).

>> 4. Please correct misleading text, such as this from `Creating Hash',
>> so as not to give the impression that you get a new object for each
>> occurrence of a quoted constant.
>>
>>    You can also create a new hash table using the printed
>>    representation for hash tables.
>>
>> Here is one example of confusion wrt the gotcha for #s:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/q/36964728/729907
>
> Yes, that seems pretty misleading -- the natural interpretation of that
> (and the example) is that you can use it exactly as is done in that code
> snippet.  Which you can't.  Does anybody want to rephrase the "Creating
> Hash" node in hash.texi?

I've now clarified this in Emacs 28.

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