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emacs-29 3ce37db9882: Remove mention of old dotted-list reader quirk fro


From: Mattias Engdegård
Subject: emacs-29 3ce37db9882: Remove mention of old dotted-list reader quirk from manual
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 13:09:19 -0400 (EDT)

branch: emacs-29
commit 3ce37db9882aff24301716e638999e0888195083
Author: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
Commit: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>

    Remove mention of old dotted-list reader quirk from manual
    
    * doc/lispref/objects.texi (Dotted Pair Notation):
    The (. X) reader peculiarity is no more (bug#62020).
---
 doc/lispref/objects.texi | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

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 @@ It looks like this:
 @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.
-
 @node Association List Type
 @subsubsection Association List Type
 



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