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Re: Simple reconfigure


From: Arun Isaac
Subject: Re: Simple reconfigure
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 08:57:04 +0530

address@hidden 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.?



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