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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
	40968@debbugs.gnu.org, Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil)
Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 14:28:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85a72khq90.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f13f606d-558f-4493-a32d-927a17259634@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 6 May 2020 11:00:30 -0700 (PDT)")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>  apply function arg &rest more-args
>                 ^^^
>
> https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node81.html
>
> On the other hand the CL HyperSpec agrees with you:
>
>  apply function &rest args+ => result*
>
> http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_apply.htm

I think '&rest args+' is just BNF shorthand for 'arg &rest more-args'
(i.e., both signatures above require a total of 2 or more arguments).

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/01_dab.htm





  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-06 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-29 18:26 bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil) Pip Cet
2020-04-29 18:35 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06  1:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06  7:26   ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 11:24     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06 11:49       ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 13:02         ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06 13:55           ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 15:28             ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06 18:06               ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 19:26                 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 14:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 17:54             ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 18:09               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 18:00           ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 18:28             ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2020-05-06 19:17               ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 19:21                 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 19:28                   ` Drew Adams
2020-05-07  2:27                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 17:46         ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 20:32         ` Phil Sainty
2020-05-06 21:35           ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29  3:00     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-06 10:18 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-06 10:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 10:57     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-06 11:25   ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 11:49     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-06 18:42 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-07  6:53   ` Pip Cet
2020-05-07  9:11     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-07 11:54       ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-07 11:58         ` Pip Cet
2020-05-07 12:20           ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-07 13:53         ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-06-02  7:36           ` Pip Cet
2020-06-02 16:32             ` Drew Adams
2020-06-02 16:43               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-02 16:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 15:01             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 19:28               ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <<CC40D602-5027-40A7-9BAB-1AADC9E4BDAE@acm.org>
     [not found] ` <<CAOqdjBfj6AExvem5WWLfMiw4fEsY-xUUmosV+fj9CaPgWM16ag@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <<ECEC9424-919F-4364-9294-381C8751921A@acm.org>
     [not found]     ` <<874kssm04d.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <<6ADF0807-7EBD-4054-8579-4D9AD3065D51@acm.org>
     [not found]         ` <<CAOqdjBdQne3RFTjg4hej40L5aeBx6vbGp6nXKx2TwPkLPf5NPw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <<fabfb1fd-4da1-4e72-90c9-333532011a48@default>
     [not found]             ` <<83pnahctad.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-06-02 17:10               ` Drew Adams
2020-06-02 18:41                 ` Pip Cet

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