From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for car and cdr Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:46:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200601252211.k0PMB3618664@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138302245 30290 80.91.229.2 (26 Jan 2006 19:04:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:04:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, mario.goulart@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 26 20:04:03 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 1F2COy-0005ph-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:03:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2CRl-0005uy-Gn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:06:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F2BFd-0000Vg-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F2BFc-0000V8-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2BFc-0000V0-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:49:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F2BDD-0003H4-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:47:11 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1F2BCU-00055p-1V; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:46:26 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200601252211.k0PMB3618664@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:11:03 -0600 (CST)) 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:49585 Archived-At: Describing basic concepts like car, cdr, cons cell, list and so on is the task of manuals, not of docstrings. If somebody is not familiar with the basic concepts, they have to read a manual, where those concepts can be put into the proper context, _not_ individual docstrings. Hear, hear! I suggest we drop this thread.