From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:33:42 +0000 (+0300) Subject: ; Explain why "kinds of atom" isn't a typo X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~173 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d353fc4a005472f6ac4ac3d530cee18a51c00243;p=emacs.git ; Explain why "kinds of atom" isn't a typo * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Lisp Atoms): Add a comment explaining why "kinds of atom" isn't a typo. --- diff --git a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi index 6ecd552ebb0..391b6d9c590 100644 --- a/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi +++ b/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi @@ -1162,6 +1162,10 @@ computer. Often, people use the term @dfn{expression} indiscriminately. (Also, in many texts, the word @dfn{form} is used as a synonym for expression.) +@c This and the next paragraph say ``kinds of atom'', but that is not +@c a typo, just slightly ``old-fashioned wording which adds a fillip +@c of interest to it'', and ``is more elegant writing'', according to +@c RMS. Incidentally, the atoms that make up our universe were named such when they were thought to be indivisible; but it has been found that physical atoms are not indivisible. Parts can split off an atom or it can