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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



      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-23  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-23  0:04 dolist incompatible change - why? Drew Adams
2013-01-23  0:21 ` Xue Fuqiao [this message]

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