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bug#9082: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomer


From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#9082: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:31:32 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> 2011-07-14  Adam Sjøgren  <asjo@koldfront.dk>
>
>       * data.c (car, cdr): add functionality hints to documentation.

I've applied your patch to Emacs 24, although...

>   DEFUN ("cdr", Fcdr, Scdr, 1, 1, 0,
> !        doc: /* Return the cdr (rest) of LIST.  If arg is nil, return nil.

this is kinda still wrong-ish.  I mean, you can take the cdr of a cons
cell.  The cdr isn't more `rest' then the car is.  However, since the
documentation says LIST, I guess it's OK.

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