From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for car and cdr Date: 25 Jan 2006 17:07:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138226882 30007 80.91.229.2 (25 Jan 2006 22:08:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:08:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mario Domenech Goulart , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 25 23:07:57 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 1F1snb-0002Ou-15 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:07:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1sqM-0007Xx-8H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1sq7-0007WZ-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1sq4-0007UH-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1sq3-0007UD-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:10:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.245.121.137] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F1snS-0007rz-A4; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:07:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1F1sn8-0004Uj-Va; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:07:02 -0500 Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 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:49541 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > Each of these sentences is completely accurate (by virtue of "loosely > speaking"), regardless of whether LIST is a list, a dotted pair, or > nil. blech. placing "loosely speaking" in the docstring decreases credibility (take it from a practiced word weasler: those are weasel words), and does not clarify anything. that's certainly a bad move. (note: CERTAINLY, not just LOOSELY SPEAKING.) this whole thread is populated by people who know what CAR and CDR are. people who don't, who *might* be confused, who *may* be offended by such crass self-documentation; they won't read this or the docstring anyway! now, i suppose someone will lark an ostensibly non-expert friend into sending a bug report on this. what, is it 1-april already? thi