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Re: FW: [External] : Re: Lisp anime video


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: FW: [External] : Re: Lisp anime video
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 19:51:26 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

>> Any pronunciation you like is fine, but it really should
>> differentiate things like cddr and caddr and cadar. IOW, in
>> particular it needs to distinguish things like cdr
>> and cdar.
>
> In my book, the pronounciation of those cXXXr is the least
> of their problems. They make the code hard to understand
> anyway. I strongly recommend limiting oneself to cXr and
> cXXr, and preferring `nth` and `nthcdr` or defining new
> types with `cl-defstruct` so you can use proper names for
> the relevant fields.

Without a doubt ...

Still there's some coolness to it ...

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