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Remove mention of old dotted-list reader quirk from manual

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* doc/lispref/objects.texi (Dotted Pair Notation):
The (. X) reader peculiarity is no more (bug#62020).
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Mattias Engdegård 2023-03-12 17:57:38 +01:00
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@ -1007,13 +1007,6 @@ It looks like this:
@end example @end example
@end ifnottex @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 @node Association List Type
@subsubsection Association List Type @subsubsection Association List Type