From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: myglc2@gmail.com, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simple reconfigure
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:05:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgd4yhc8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cu7h8nuy9o7.fsf@systemreboot.net> (Arun Isaac's message of "Sun, 29 Apr 2018 08:57:04 +0530")
Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:
> 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.?
Yeah I agree.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-30 13:06 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
2018-04-29 6:39 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-30 13:05 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-04-29 6:37 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-29 6:40 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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