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Re: Documentation for car and cdr


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Documentation for car and cdr
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:42:21 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Luc Teirlinck wrote:
>> If that person did `C-h f car' because he did not know what a car
>> was, that is, because he does not know the very basics of Lisp, the
>> clue that will help him is that he should learn Lisp by studying a
>> manual, not by reading docstrings.
>>   
> Many Emacs users have no interest in learning Lisp properly. They
> just want to know enough to be able to configure Emacs, and are
> bound to come across car and cdr sooner or later.

I can't imagine any application of car and cdr when configuring Emacs
that could be applied without a basic understanding of the cons and
list data structures.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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