GNU bug report logs - #64692
Better descriptions of Cons Cells and Dotted Notation with real-life syntax

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Message #34 received at 64692-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>, uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
Cc: "64692-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <64692-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : bug#64692: Better descriptions of Cons Cells and
 Dotted Notation with real-life syntax
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.

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