From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc strings of reverse and nreverse. Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:12:11 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200311210512.hAL5CB914889@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200311200410.hAK4Axt07727@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069392331 1952 80.91.224.253 (21 Nov 2003 05:25:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:25:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 06:25:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AN3nN-0006NQ-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 06:25:29 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AN3nM-0006ux-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 06:25:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AN4eJ-0007Rm-W8 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:20:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AN4eE-0007R8-Gy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AN4di-0007Ke-T5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AN4di-0007KY-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:19:34 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAL5I5Kk008264; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:18:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id hAL5CB914889; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:12:11 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18008 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18008 Kim Storm wrote: It's "beginning of list" in the meaning "pointer to first element in the list". I should have thought of that. However, this is the C way of thinking about things and I am not used to see Lisp documentation strings written in C style terminology. That is what confused me. I agree that "beginning of" should be removed from doc strings. If will wait a little while, to make sure that there are no objections. If there are none, I will commit my changes to the doc strings. Sincerely, Luc.