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From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: myglc2@gmail.com, Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simple reconfigure
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 08:57:04 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cu7h8nuy9o7.fsf@systemreboot.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgd7au9v.fsf@gmail.com>

myglc2@gmail.com writes:

> 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

I think we should use append and list instead of cons or cons*. The
meaning of append is more self-evident to someone new to lisp. Why not
avoid cons just like we already avoid car, cdr, etc.?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-29  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-27 15:38 Simple reconfigure Jone
2018-04-28  5:01 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-28 18:39   ` Jone
2018-04-28 20:11     ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-28 21:35       ` myglc2
2018-04-29  3:23         ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-29  3:27         ` Arun Isaac [this message]
2018-04-29  6:39           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-30 13:05           ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-04-29  6:37       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-29  6:40         ` Pierre Neidhardt

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