From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MON KEY Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unexpected result with mapc of lambda form inside catch/throw Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:19:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <49338.130.55.132.76.1290872820.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290878381 2995 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2010 17:19:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:19:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 27 18:19:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PMOQz-0003N3-Co for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:19:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PMOQy-0004Bj-KV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:19:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49444 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PMOQt-0004Ar-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:19:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PMOQr-0003aa-Ts for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:19:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:52961) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PMOQr-0003aS-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: by wwi17 with SMTP id 17so53278wwi.0 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:19:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.216.238.130 with SMTP id a2mr3237027wer.28.1290878368520; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:19:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.216.70.212 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:19:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49338.130.55.132.76.1290872820.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> X-Google-Sender-Auth: ST7gAQmUfxngDhV4U-h0haqJUD8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133190 Archived-At: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Davis Herring wrote: >> Can someone please explain why the following expression's `lambda' form >> returns 32 when mapc'ing its arg X? > > Because the second argument to mapc is the " " near the end, and not the > `sub-str-pfx' just above it? Davis, thank you so much for helping me to see my erorr!!! :) I certainly managed to confuse the heck out of myself huh? Sorry for the noise. This said, maybe if `return-from' existed I would have been lest blinded by my convoluted nesting of catch/throw... > Davis -- /s_P\