Re: Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> But can we express it somewhat simpler? LIST-VALUE? Is it more
> descriptive than SYMBOL or LIST-VAR.

But it is a symbol.  The description of the function is awkward because
it's a really weird function.

Comparing it with a more traditional function illustrates the
difference:

(setq foo '(3 2))

(add-to-list 'foo 1)

(cons 1 foo)

`add-to-list' takes a symbol as a parameter.  `cons' takes a list as a
parameter.

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