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Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - ta
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2 |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:41:38 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> However, to really understand car (or cdr), you really need a bit more
> understanding of lists, cons cells etc. So having a somewhat terse doc
> string which includes a link to the manual may be a good thing as it
> will encourage the user to look at the manual and possibly get some of
> the additional information (plus caar, caadr, cddr etc).
Agreed. There's one detail that would be helpful, tho: make it clear
which is which, for those people who are familiar with the general idea
but aren't using Lisp often enough to remember which of `car` or `cdr`
return the right hand side of cons cell.
Stefan
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, (continued)
- 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 <=
- 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
- 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, Eli Zaretskii, 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, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2021/07/15
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Stefan Monnier, 2021/07/16
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/07/16
- Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/16