From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: Robin Tarsiger <rtt@dasyatidae.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 09:35:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eek6nf30.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR06MB6577F47904A46CE920C0834096F10@AM0PR06MB6577.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (Arthur Miller's message of "Fri, 04 Dec 2020 04:35:15 +0100")
Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:
> But can we express it somewhat simpler? LIST-VALUE? Is it more
> descriptive than SYMBOL or LIST-VAR.
But it is a symbol. The description of the function is awkward because
it's a really weird function.
Comparing it with a more traditional function illustrates the
difference:
(setq foo '(3 2))
(add-to-list 'foo 1)
(cons 1 foo)
`add-to-list' takes a symbol as a parameter. `cons' takes a list as a
parameter.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-04 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-04 2:17 Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted Arthur Miller
2020-12-04 2:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-04 2:36 ` Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-04 3:29 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-04 3:35 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-04 8:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-04 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-04 15:28 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-04 15:56 ` Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-04 16:14 ` Ad-hoc list structure tutorializing (was: Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted) Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-04 20:24 ` Ad-hoc list structure tutorializing Stefan Monnier
2020-12-04 21:12 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-05 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-06 5:45 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-06 5:57 ` Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-06 14:01 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-06 5:39 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-04 21:40 ` add-to-list vs cl-pushnew Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-04 21:51 ` Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-04 22:47 ` Sv: Ad-hoc list structure tutorializing (was: Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted) arthur miller
2020-12-04 17:03 ` Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted Drew Adams
2020-12-04 17:24 ` arthur miller
2020-12-04 18:02 ` Drew Adams
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