bug#42591: closed (A minor error in the Elisp manual)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: A minor error in the Elisp manual Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 20:45:28 -0500 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0

In the Elisp manual in section 9.2 Defining Symbols, the first sentence in the third paragraph says:

In principle, you can assign a variable value to any symbol with setq, whether not it has first been defined as a variable.

I believe that the word 'or' is missing between the words 'whether' and 'not', and that the sentence should read:

In principle, you can assign a variable value to any symbol with setq, whether or not it has first been defined as a variable.

Sincerely,
J C Bingham
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> Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:43:06 +0200
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> Jay Bingham <binghamjc@msn.com> writes:
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> > In the Elisp manual in section 9.2 Defining Symbols, the first sentence in 
> > the third paragraph says:
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> > In principle, you can assign a variable value to any symbol with setq, 
> > whether not it has first been defined as a variable.
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> > I believe that the word 'or' is missing between the words 'whether' and 
> > 'not', and that the sentence should read:
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> > In principle, you can assign a variable value to any symbol with setq, 
> > whether or not it has first been defined as a variable.
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> Thanks, now fixed on the emacs-27 branch.
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> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas
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