From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for car and cdr Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:53:11 +0100 Message-ID: <85mzhi8s2g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200601252211.k0PMB3618664@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138322649 10168 80.91.229.2 (27 Jan 2006 00:44:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, mario.goulart@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 27 01:44:05 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 1F2HiX-0003wt-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:43:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2HlL-0005sl-Mw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:46:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F2HiK-0004PM-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:43:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F2HiF-0004KK-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:43:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2Hi8-0004Jr-Qw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:43:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F2Hfn-0007J4-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:41:07 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F2Hen-0004db-1Q; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 9A5501D3273A; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:53:11 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:46:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:49605 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > Return the car of cons cell CONS. If arg is nil, return nil. > Error if arg is not nil and not a cons cell. See also `car-safe'. > > How about this: > > Return the car of cons cell (or list) CONS. If arg is nil, return nil. > Error if arg is not nil and not a cons cell. See also `car-safe'. No, I liked, if at all, Alan's last suggestion better. Your wording suggests that a cons cell and a list are different things, but a cons cell. And I think "car of a list" strange terminology, anyway. Lists have elements, not cars. I'd talk about "car of a cons" and "first element of a list". -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum