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23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc

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Message #70 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <rms <at> gnu.org>, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
        <1381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Cc: <bug-submit-list <at> donarmstrong.com>, <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>,
        <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#1381: 23.0.60; capitalization of car and cdr in the doc
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:22:22 -0800

>     They are not in uppercase, they are in "small caps" 
>     typeface (@sc in
>     Texinfo markup).  You are reading the Info manual, where @sc is
>     rendered as uppercase, but in the printed manual it looks 
>     differently.
> 
> It may be a mistake to render @sc as upper case in Info
> because these words might get confused with variable names.
> (I don't know if that is a real problem.)

OK, that's one thing. But my question was whether these shouldn't simply be
treated as normal Emacs terms - just like cons, buffer, symbol, and frame, after
they have been introduced (defined).

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