From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dolist incompatible change - why?
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:21:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130123082112.e5d5a054e5de3579760f5414@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F8368BA9FDA84DABBE56E9A330C3F35C@us.oracle.com>
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:04:19 -0800
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> Since we are apparently no longer supposed to file bug reports about
> not-yet-released NEWS, I raise the question here.
And I think that it is not a bug.
> The first problem with this is that neither it nor the doc string specify
> what VAR _is_ bound to when RESULT is evaluated.
And in (info "(eintr) dolist").
> To be clear, I don't use a RESULT clause much, personally. It just seems like
> this change is a step backward, not forward. Why do we need to do this?
I'm also curious about it.
--
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao
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2013-01-23 0:04 dolist incompatible change - why? Drew Adams
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