Subject: RE: [External] : bug#64692: Better descriptions of Cons Cells and Dotted Notation with real-life syntax

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:20:02 +0000

> The node containing your example is located in the Emacs Lisp reference
> manual, which contains two adequate descriptions of both dotted lists
> and dotted pair notation.  

Yes, it does.
But a reader of this menu-syntax node
won't have a clue about that.  Please
provide a cross-reference to it.

Defining menus is one of the first
places a new Elisp user will run into
dot-notation syntax.

Another is the complex syntax for
font-lock.  There too a reader will
need to understand dot notation to
make sense of the syntax spec.

> I see no problem here; closing.

That's too bad.