From: Colin Woodbury <colin@fosskers.ca>
To: 57273@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57273: Improve `cl-reduce` docstring
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:59:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb5bcf26-5c93-2760-6626-3da2b8691178@fosskers.ca> (raw)
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This patch expands the docstring of `cl-reduce` to mention that the
order of arguments to the given lambda is flipped when `:from-end` is
used. This behaviour matches "right folds" in other languages, but this
fact is otherwise hidden until the user's code suddenly breaks. The
order flip is technically mentioned in the cl-lib manual, but in a
somewhat cryptic way.
Cheers,
Colin
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From c2e8d04545664ca6ed6363a804d9607588f4df61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Woodbury <colin@fosskers.ca>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:49:59 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] ; * lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-seq.el (cl-reduce): Document arg order
flip when :from-end is used.
---
lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-seq.el | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-seq.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-seq.el
index 64ae05bf2a..60e204eaf5 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-seq.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-seq.el
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ only case where FUNCTION is called with fewer than two arguments.
If SEQ contains exactly one element and no :INITIAL-VALUE is
specified, then return that element and FUNCTION is not called.
+If :FROM-END is non-nil, the reduction occurs from the back of
+the SEQ moving forward, and the order of arguments to the
+FUNCTION is also reversed.
+
\n(fn FUNCTION SEQ [KEYWORD VALUE]...)"
(cl--parsing-keywords (:from-end (:start 0) :end :initial-value :key) ()
(or (listp cl-seq) (setq cl-seq (append cl-seq nil)))
--
2.37.2
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2022-08-18 9:59 Colin Woodbury [this message]
2022-08-18 13:07 ` bug#57273: Improve `cl-reduce` docstring Lars Ingebrigtsen
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