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diff --git a/lispref/intro.texi b/lispref/intro.texi index f6fe12dfa88..3b310cdf3ed 100644 --- a/lispref/intro.texi +++ b/lispref/intro.texi @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ manual. You may want to skip this section and refer back to it later. Throughout this manual, the phrases ``the Lisp reader'' and ``the Lisp printer'' are used to refer to those routines in Lisp that convert -textual representations of Lisp objects into actual objects, and vice +textual representations of Lisp objects into actual Lisp objects, and vice versa. @xref{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, @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ in this font or form: @var{first-number}. @cindex boolean @cindex false - In Lisp, the symbol @code{nil} is overloaded with three meanings: it + In Lisp, the symbol @code{nil} has three separate meanings: it is a symbol with the name @samp{nil}; it is the logical truth value @var{false}; and it is the empty list---the list of zero elements. When used as a variable, @code{nil} always has the value @code{nil}. |