Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >> And the fact that nobody has ever complained about the fact that
>> >> set-variable can be used on vars that don't have a * (as long as
>> >> they're defined with `defcustom') indicates that it is not a bad
>> >> behavior.
>> 
>> > And the fact that nobody has ever complained about undiscovered
>> > crimes indicates that they are not a bad thing...
>> 
>> Sorry, but absurd analogies do not count as an argument in my book,
>> especially not if they resort to things like crime, nazism, etc...

> So let me put this without any analogy: I fail to see that merely
> because it took a while to discover a bug (and a discrepancy between
> documentation and behavior is a bug) this means that the bug is
> correct behavior.

Then we misunderstood each other: I completely agree that the discrepancy is
a bug and this discussion is an attempt to fix it.  In the first paragraph
quoted above you can see that I am arguing that the behavior is not a bug,
thus meaning that the bug is in the documentation.

> Most bugs go unnoticed or at least unrecorded for a long time.
> That does not make them desirable.

Sure, but I was not talking about a bug: just about a behavior.


        Stefan