Re: function arguments

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> The function make-translation-table shows its help like so:
>
> -----------------------
> make-translation-table is a compiled Lisp function in `mule.el'.
>
> (make-translation-table &rest ARGS)
>
> Make a translation table from arguments.
> <etc etc>
> ----------------
>
>
> However Ive to call it like so
>
> (defvar apl-translation-table
>   (make-translation-table '((?a . ?α) (?b . ?β) (?c . ?γ) (?d . ?δ)
> (?e . ?ε))))
>
> and not
>
> (make-translation-table (?a . ?α) (?b . ?β) (?c . ?γ) (?d . ?δ) (?e . ?ε)))
>
>
> Am I missing something basic??

From the doc:

,----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Each argument is a list of elements of the form (FROM . TO), where FROM
| is a character to be translated to TO.
`----------------------------------------------------------------------

Your first example is valid (with one such argument given), but not
your second (because your arguments are not _lists_ of elements of the
form (FROM . TO)).  So, the doc seems to be correct, but you must not
get confused by the list of lists of blah structure ;-)


Regards,

Michael.