From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>, 31628@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31628: 26.1; Problem in read-multiple-choice's docstring
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 17:39:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vab6h0vk.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17f558ca-75b4-4787-ad48-b99559598b6a@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 29 May 2018 06:49:37 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Technically, a list of (A B C) is as much an alist as a list of (A . B),
>> but I agree that the docstring can be clarified a bit.
>
> No - assuming you mean that A, B, and C are elements of the
> list and they are atoms, not cons cells.
You misunderstood the wording that Damien and I used. We both referred
to lists *of elements* (A B C), not lists *of form* (A B C). In other
words, (A B C) and (A . B) describe the structure of the list's
elements, not that of the list itself.
The preposition "of" in "list of (A B C)" totally disambiguates this
distinction for me; if the wording is not as clear to others, then
perhaps someone will suggest an improvement.
--
Basil
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-28 15:23 bug#31628: 26.1; Problem in read-multiple-choice's docstring Damien Cassou
2018-05-28 18:07 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-05-29 6:04 ` Damien Cassou
2018-05-29 12:18 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-29 13:49 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-29 16:39 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
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