GNU bug report logs - #230
Emacs Lisp Intro vs 3.07, 9 November 2006

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Message #10 received at 230-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Zac Storer <chromaticwholetone <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: bob <at> rattlesnake.com, 230-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp Intro vs 3.07, 9 November 2006
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:46:48 -0400

Zac Storer <chromaticwholetone <at> yahoo.com> wrote:

> In the "Introduction to Emacs Lisp" Book, under List Processing:Lisp- 
> Lists:Lisp Atoms, the eighth paragraph contains the following: 
>
> In addition, text between double quotation marks--even sentences or
> paragraphs--is an atom.
>
> The phrase "In addition" may be a little ambiguous to some readers, as it also 
> sounds similar to the mathematical addition operation. Perhaps it could be 
> replaced with something like "Furthermore"?

Sounds reasonable.  Generally, the phrase "in addition" is unambiguous,
but in this case the preceding paragraph discussed the `+' symbol, so I
guess there's a small possibility of confusion.  I went ahead and made a
minor tweak to the text to remove this possibility.

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