From e55f473ea9101fe137a046d7a9a561c82a9fbf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:34:48 +0100
Subject: Help: clarify that list(APPEND) on a non-existent list creates it

This is hinted-at in the introduction, which mentions creating
a new variable value in the current scope, but let's make it
explicit.

Fixes: #22910
---
 Help/command/list.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Help/command/list.rst b/Help/command/list.rst
index 9b49cb4..46285cc 100644
--- a/Help/command/list.rst
+++ b/Help/command/list.rst
@@ -128,7 +128,9 @@ Modification
 
   list(APPEND <list> [<element> ...])
 
-Appends elements to the list.
+Appends elements to the list. If no variable named ``<list>`` exists in the
+current scope its value is treated as empty and the elements are appended to
+that empty list.
 
 .. _FILTER:
 
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