Subject: Re: bug#60639: Improvement to the Wording of GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:50:23 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 04:56:18 -0700
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > I don't mind installing it, but IMO its wording needs some
> > improvement.  Here's what I suggest to install:
> >
> >      In most cases, an object's printed representation is also a read
> >    syntax for the object.  However, some types have no read syntax, since
> >    it does not make sense to enter objects of these types as constants in
> >    a Lisp program.  These objects are printed in @dfn{hash notation},
> >    which consists of the characters @samp{#<}, a descriptive string
> >    (typically the type name followed by the name of the object), and a
> >    closing @samp{>}.  (This is called ``hash notation'' because it
> >    begins with the @samp{#} character, known as ``hash'' or ``number
> >    sign'').  For example:
> 
> Looks good to me.

Now installed on the emacs-29 branch, and closing the bug.