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Re: Documentation for car and cdr


From: Peter Whaite
Subject: Re: Documentation for car and cdr
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:31:51 -0500

Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I fully agree, but notice that the doc strings for car and cdr 
> say that the arg is "list".  I think that part of the confusion
> is that a "pure" list does have a head and a tail and car==head
> and cdr==tail.

Yes exactly right.  As it is now the  doc string gives the
misleading impression that c[ad]r operate on lists when they don't.


-- 
Peter Whaite





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