From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for car and cdr Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:11:16 +0000 Message-ID: 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 1138317304 27091 80.91.229.2 (26 Jan 2006 23:15:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:15:04 +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 00:14:59 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 1F2GKN-00038B-7q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:14:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2GNB-0004Ld-K7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:17:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F2GLb-0003It-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F2GLZ-0003GZ-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:16:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2GLY-0003Fu-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F2GJ8-0000rF-FV; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0QNChch014988; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:12:43 GMT Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D71285; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:12:43 +0000 (GMT) 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 (windows-nt) 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:49602 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'. This might make it a little clearer to a new user that a cons cell is somehow related to a list. It does not make the meaning of the vehicle preceding that any clearer to someone unfamiliar with the instruction set of a Lisp Machine.