Subject: bug#17567: 24.4.50; doc string of `define-derived-mode'

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 12:07:02 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> The first is a variable, the second is a symbol.  "Unquoted symbol" is
> something that causes at least me to raise a brow.

Is it better to delete that sentence and leave it as it was, or is there
something else we could usefully put as an explanation?