From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: 7408@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project?
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:21:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4obggbcg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqu59d16.fsf@picasso.cante.net> (Jari Aalto's message of "Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:25:25 +0200")
>> subr.el has had a dolist definition since at least Emacs 21.x; ie 9 years.
>> Therefore this cannot be a major issue in practice.
> In my book it is still a bug, no matter how many years ago this bug were
> introduced:
> - To have two different implementations of same function.
> - To not be able to rely on uniform behavior.
You look at it the wrong way: the problem is not with dolist, it's that
you use `return' which is a special form that's not defined in standard
Elisp. After (require 'cl), `return' gets defined and things work as
you expect.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <1213200935.4147.62.camel@cyberelk.elk>
2010-10-16 13:42 ` bug#7227: re-search-forward goes infinite loop with dash inside [] Jari Aalto
2010-10-16 13:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-16 21:25 ` bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project? Jari Aalto
2010-11-16 21:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-16 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-11-17 4:47 ` jari
2010-11-17 8:25 ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-17 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-17 12:47 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-17 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-18 22:02 ` bug#7408: 23.2.1 dolist -- subr.el and cl-macs differ with nil-block return Jari Aalto
2010-11-21 5:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-21 9:08 ` jari
2010-11-21 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-21 18:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-17 14:18 ` bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project? martin rudalics
2010-11-15 10:51 bug#7408: 23.2.1 dolist -- subr.el and cl-macs differ with nil-block return Jari Aalto
2010-11-21 23:19 ` bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project? MON KEY
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-16 9:16 bug#7227: re-search-forward goes infinite loop with dash inside [] Jari Aalto
2010-10-16 11:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-16 11:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-10-22 7:55 ` bug#7227: Close bts:gnu Jari Aalto
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