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elisp: Some Terms

 
 1.3.1 Some Terms
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 Throughout this manual, the phrases “the Lisp reader” and “the Lisp
 printer” refer to those routines in Lisp that convert textual
 representations of Lisp objects into actual Lisp objects, and vice
 versa.  Printed Representation, for more details.  You, the
 person reading this manual, are thought of as the programmer and are
 addressed as “you”.  The user is the person who uses Lisp programs,
 including those you write.
 
    Examples of Lisp code are formatted like this: ‘(list 1 2 3)’.  Names
 that represent metasyntactic variables, or arguments to a function being
 described, are formatted like this: FIRST-NUMBER.
 

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