From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Subject: doc strings of reverse and nreverse.
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:10:59 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311200410.hAK4Axt07727@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
The doc strings of `reverse' and `nreverse' are strange and cryptic.
Do C-h f reverse RET
Result:
reverse is a built-in function.
(reverse LIST)
Reverse LIST, copying. Returns the beginning of the reversed list.
See also the function `nreverse', which is used more often.
My comments:
The "beginning" of the reversed list? How much of the beginning?
Whenever I tried `reverse' it always returned the entire reversed
list, like the Common Lisp function of the same name. Does it _ever_
do anything else? If yes, when and what is the "else"? If not, what
does that strange sentence mean? If it ever does anything else, then
there still is a bug in the new version of number-sequence I
submitted, but there would be bugs all over Emacs.
Same questions for `nreverse':
reverse is a built-in function.
(nreverse LIST)
Reverse LIST by modifying cdr pointers.
Returns the beginning of the reversed list.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next reply other threads:[~2003-11-20 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 4:10 Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2003-11-20 4:29 ` doc strings of reverse and nreverse Luc Teirlinck
2003-11-20 10:42 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-11-21 5:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
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