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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: "Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>, 9082@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9082: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:09:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y600fwuj.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <imxggk5k0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:47:43 -0400")

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> To me, "rest" means nothing with no context.
> It's fine to say: "A returns the first element, and B the rest."
> But just saying on its own "B returns the rest" with no reference to A
> means nothing.
> I might say "B returns everything but the first element".

And it's still not precise, since "first element" has no meaning if it's
not a list, but just a cons cell.

I've now reverted the patch.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-14 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-14 15:03 bug#9082: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers Adam Sjøgren
2011-07-14 18:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 19:19   ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-07-14 19:47     ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-14 20:09       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-07-14 20:28         ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-07-14 20:37           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 21:20             ` bug#9082: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lispnewcomers Drew Adams

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