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Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - ta


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:03:00 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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?

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