GNU bug report logs - #1381
23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Yavor Doganov <yavor <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 1381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:44:40 +0200

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> One problem with saying just "car" is that it could be confused to
> mean an automobile.  (I'm serious.)

Absolutely.  We had a few reports from readers of
http://gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html who complained that there's a typo.
We changed it to <tt>car</tt>.
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