From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: member inconsistency? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:58:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87twly2iye.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <871t929f1e.fsf@gmx.net> <87oac5s2a7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454111948 27690 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2016 23:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 23:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, p.stephani2@gmail.com, stephen.berman@gmx.net, mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 30 00:59:01 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aPIwD-0000xF-W4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 00:58:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPIwD-0004Ap-9H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:58:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51962) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPIw0-0004AZ-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:58:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPIvz-0005lA-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPIvp-0005ZH-2b; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aPIvo-0004SM-AD; Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:58:24 -0500 In-reply-to: <87oac5s2a7.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A5rd?= on Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:38:24 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199012 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > In contrast, `member' (and `memql' in the float case) has no check and > > also uses a for-loop with the condition CONSP (tail), and when this > > fails, the function just returns Qnil. > `delete' and `delq' also has the bug. Why consider it a bug? What is wrong with it? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.