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On 04/28/2018 at 13:11 Chris Marusich writes:

Hi Jone, thanks for these comments.

> Jone <yeger9@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> About 'cons' and 'cons*' - okay, let's see in the manual. Examples,
>> examples, examples, more examples! ;) That would be great.

ISTM the doc sets "cons traps" for new users. e.g., 

6.2.1 Using the Configuration System 
...
       (file-systems (cons (file-system
                             (device "my-root")
...
       (users (cons (user-account
                     (name "alice")
...

I call these "cons traps" because the first thing our new user may do is
add a file system or user and be greeted by a scheme error ...

Wrong number of arguments to #<procedure cons (_ _)>

WDYT of replacing all these uses of cons with cons*? - George