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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: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 06:34:37 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

Yeah, perhaps punting to the manual is the better strategy here.

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