From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:50:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v95c7v3v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735shrl57.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> (message from Adam Sjøgren on Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:05:24 +0200)
> From: Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:05:24 +0200
>
> Or what about:
>
> ,----
> | (car LIST)
> |
> | Return the car of LIST, eg if LIST is '(a . b) return a. If arg is nil, return nil.
> `----
>
> ,----
> | (cdr LIST)
> |
> | Return the cdr of LIST, eg if LIST is '(a . b) return b. If arg is nil, return nil.
> `----
The doc string nowadays includes a pointer to the ELisp manual, where
you can find a description of what is 'car' and what is 'cdr'. I
think that's "good enough".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-14 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-14 15:05 Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2 Adam Sjøgren
2021-07-14 15:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-07-14 15:48 ` tomas
2021-07-14 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-14 16:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-14 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 4:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-14 23:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-07-15 4:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-15 11:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-07-15 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 15:02 ` Tim Cross
2021-07-15 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-15 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-15 15:26 ` Yuan Fu
2021-07-15 15:52 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-07-15 15:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-15 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-16 0:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-16 2:08 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-07-16 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-16 14:38 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-07-16 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 16:17 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-07-15 16:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-15 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 17:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-15 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 20:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-07-15 21:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-14 16:37 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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