From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de (Tomas Zerolo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for car and cdr Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:28:12 +0100 Message-ID: <20060126132812.GE22581@www.trapp.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0164034966==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138288136 4198 80.91.229.2 (26 Jan 2006 15:08:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 26 16:08:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F28jh-0003G9-KE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:08:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F28mD-0006CN-2Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:11:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F27M6-0002LW-G3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F27LK-00028X-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:39:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F27In-0001Yj-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:36:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.22.192.104] (helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F27GJ-0000a9-DQ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:34:07 -0500 Original-Received: from www.elogos.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.elogos.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D21DB16E; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:28:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 4000) id EB6F4DB1B9; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:28:12 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49578 Archived-At: --===============0164034966== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sfyO1m2EN8ZOtJL6" Content-Disposition: inline --sfyO1m2EN8ZOtJL6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:34:43AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: [...] > OK, here are my suggestions. I think they they are both clear enough and > rigorous enough: >=20 > " car is a built-in function. > (car CONS) >=20 > Return the car of CONS. If CONS is nil, return nil. > The car of a list or a dotted pair is its first element. >=20 > Error if CONS is not nil and not a cons cell. See also `car-safe'." [similar CDR suggestion snipped] I actually liked your first suggestions better. I know it is controversial here :-) Regards -- tomas --sfyO1m2EN8ZOtJL6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD2M5sBcgs9XrR2kYRAm6SAJ9HLh6ZYT88rnj9YyoWAhVecnCYDACfXMXf rG5aB20gv39d9hgJGgsSybA= =CYXH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sfyO1m2EN8ZOtJL6-- --===============0164034966== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel --===============0164034966==--