From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The doc-strings for car and cdr are insulting.
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:40:09 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410272340.i9RNe9v18744@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1041027183957.614A-100000@acm.acm> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:56:22 +0000 (GMT))
>From my prior message:
I believe that the current version: "Return the car of list."
is shorter and clearer.
Although "Return the car of CONS." might indeed possibly avoid some
confusion.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-27 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-10-27 18:56 ` The doc-strings for car and cdr are insulting Alan Mackenzie
2004-10-27 23:35 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-27 23:40 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2004-10-28 10:44 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-29 4:32 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-29 10:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-10-29 15:32 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-10-30 0:21 ` Chris Smith
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