bug#62020: Lisp reader: dotted pair notation not working when initial elements are omitted

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 10:32:48 +0100
> Cc: federicotedin@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 62020@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 10 mars 2023 kl. 12.55 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> 
> > Documentation changes are always fine for a release branch, but I'd
> > prefer to discuss a specific patch, if you don't mind posting one.
> 
> Not at all. There's not much to see here -- the minimal change would just 
> remove a paragraph:
> 
> diff --git a/doc/lispref/objects.texi b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
> index 99a3c073971..2fe7e6db560 100644
> --- a/doc/lispref/objects.texi
> +++ b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
> @@ -1007,13 +1007,6 @@ Dotted Pair Notation
>  @end example
>  @end ifnottex
>  
> -  As a somewhat peculiar side effect of @code{(a b . c)} and
> -@code{(a . (b . c))} being equivalent, for consistency this means
> -that if you replace @code{b} here with the empty sequence, then it
> -follows that @code{(a . c)} and @code{(a . ( . c))} are equivalent,
> -too.  This also means that @code{( .  c)} is equivalent to @code{c},
> -but this is seldom used.
> -

OK, thanks.