Subject: bug#45428: 27.1; (quote (quote (quote ...))) unexpectedly works as anonymous face

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:41:56 +0200

> From: Markus Triska <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:39:48 +0100
> 
> > It's a list, obviously.  And the face specification as a list can be
> > recursive, because it can be a list of any mix of any of the allowed
> > forms, including a list.
> 
> That's different from the documentation you quoted, which said "by any
> of the above forms", not "by any of the allowed forms".

No, it says "a list of faces".

> If it is any mix of any of the allowed forms, could you please consider
> stating that in the documentation?

I see no need, sorry.