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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258120 Archived-At: Arthur Miller writes: Hi Arthur, >> *Any* non-nil COUNT, which is not a natural number, is handled as it >> were nil. That's what my proposal for the docstring tries to say ("If >> COUNT is a natural number ..."). > > Yes, that is how I interpreted it; just wanted to confirm. See my other message. Likely we're served better, if we raise an error for a non-nil COUNT not being a natural number. "Principle of least surprise" :-) Best regards, Michael.