Re: Documentation for car and cdr

[David Kastrup]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     Return the car of cons cell CONS.  If arg is nil, return nil.
>     Error if arg is not nil and not a cons cell.  See also `car-safe'.
>
> How about this:
>
>     Return the car of cons cell (or list) CONS.  If arg is nil, return nil.
>     Error if arg is not nil and not a cons cell.  See also `car-safe'.

No, I liked, if at all, Alan's last suggestion better.  Your wording
suggests that a cons cell and a list are different things, but a cons
cell.  And I think "car of a list" strange terminology, anyway.  Lists
have elements, not cars.  I'd talk about "car of a cons" and "first
element of a list".

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