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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:260313 Archived-At: --_000_AM0PR06MB6577E75BC74ADD7CCAFF827D96F10AM0PR06MB6577eurp_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I don't Think it is :-) Tham Magne name should be h=E4nger to add-to-list-s= ymbol :-). I understand the obvious, I am reflecting over unnecessary convoluted expla= nation, and probably the design. Was it necessary for some reason that I don't understand to design this fun= ction this way? Or could have just taken a list from the very beginning? -------- Originalmeddelande -------- Fr=E5n: Drew Adams Datum: 2020-12-04 18:04 (GMT+01:00) Till: Arthur Miller , Eli Zaretskii Kopia: emacs-devel@gnu.org =C4mne: RE: Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted > why doesn't add-to-list take a list value, why symbol? That's its specific purpose: update the value of a (list-valued) _variable_. It's all about a variable - updating its value. The doc is very clear: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/List-Variables.ht= ml Please read the entire topic (node). --_000_AM0PR06MB6577E75BC74ADD7CCAFF827D96F10AM0PR06MB6577eurp_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I don't Think it is :-) Tham Magne name should be h=E4nge= r to add-to-list-symbol :-).

I understand the obvious, I am reflecting over unnecessar= y convoluted explanation, and probably the design.

Was it necessary for some reason that I don't understand = to design this function this way? Or could have just taken a list from the = very beginning?



-------- Originalmeddelande --------
Fr=E5n: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Datum: 2020-12-04 18:04 (GMT+01:00)
Till: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>, Eli Zaretskii <= eliz@gnu.org>
Kopia: emacs-devel@gnu.org
=C4mne: RE: Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted

> why doesn't add-to-list take a list value, wh= y symbol?

That's its specific purpose: update the value
of a (list-valued) _variable_.  It's all about
a variable - updating its value.

The doc is very clear:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Li= st-Variables.html

Please read the entire topic (node).
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