From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Chunyang Xu <mail@xuchunyang.me>
Cc: 24875@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#24875: 26.0.50; In Dotted Pair Notation, the read function returns CDR if CAR is absent
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:32:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zguzpiet.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fun7v02h.fsf@xuchunyang.me> (Chunyang Xu's message of "Fri, 04 Nov 2016 21:36:38 +0800")
Chunyang Xu <mail@xuchunyang.me> writes:
> For example, I eval this in the *scratch* buffer:
>
> (read "( . 123)")
> ⇒ 123
>
> (read "(1 . ( . (3 . nil)))")
> ⇒ (1 3)
>
> I can't find explanation about this behavior in elisp manual. Is it
> expected?
That is indeed very eccentric behaviour, so we should probably mention
it somewhere? (I guess we can't change it.)
Anybody got an opinion here, or a way that we can describe it in the
manual except pointing at the examples and then going ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?
--
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-04 13:36 bug#24875: 26.0.50; In Dotted Pair Notation, the read function returns CDR if CAR is absent Chunyang Xu
2016-11-04 16:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-04 16:00 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-06 15:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-07-06 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-07-06 17:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2021-05-18 15:04 Drew Adams
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