> Please don’t leave hanging parens—we want to teach people the Right Way
> to format code.  ;-)

I've always wondered what's the recommendation for closing parentheses after
inline comments.

In general, I refrain from using inline comments so I would do this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
   (packages (append (list nvi fdisk
                           ;; mostly so xrefs to its manual work:
                           grub          
                           ;; partprobe:
                           parted)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> Last, make sure the text in guix.texi that explains these examples does
> not mention ‘cons*’.

My rationale here was that I've switched to "(append (list...))" until the first time we explain
cons*, then I left the cons*.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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