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Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - ta
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2 |
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Wed, 14 Jul 2021 19:13:11 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:03:00 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > The doc string nowadays includes a pointer to the ELisp manual, where
> > you can find a description of what is 'car' and what is 'cdr'. I
> > think that's "good enough".
>
> The doc strings could say something terse like "The `car' is usually the
> first element in LIST, and the `cdr' is usually the rest of LIST"
> perhaps?
Fine with me, although I'm not sure it would help if the reader really
doesn't know about these.
- Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Adam Sjøgren, 2021/07/14
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Andreas Schwab, 2021/07/14
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, tomas, 2021/07/14
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/14
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/14
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Stefan Kangas, 2021/07/14
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/15
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Stefan Kangas, 2021/07/15
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/15
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Tim Cross, 2021/07/15
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Stefan Monnier, 2021/07/15
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Stefan Monnier, 2021/07/15
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Yuan Fu, 2021/07/15
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Eduardo Ochs, 2021/07/15