From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Subject: Re: listp docstring.
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:54:27 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601300454.k0U4sRx03645@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601300431.k0U4V2a03419@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:31:02 -0600 (CST))
Maybe I should point out that the references to "list" in the
docstrings of car and cdr are not as ambiguous as the one in listp,
because these docstrings do contain a reference to "cons cell or nil"
in their second line. This seems (to me) to make the meaning clear.
The present `listp' docstring contains no such reference.
Docstring of car:
Return the car of list. If arg is nil, return nil.
Error if arg is not nil and not a cons cell. See also `car-safe'.
See Info node `(elisp)Cons Cells' for a discussion of related basic
Lisp concepts such as car, cdr, cons cell and list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-30 4:54 UTC|newest]
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2006-01-30 4:31 listp docstring Luc Teirlinck
2006-01-30 4:54 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2006-01-30 23:25 ` Richard M. Stallman
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