From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: make-vector documentation is wrong
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 20:19:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ded6a2bc-2a67-dd33-4bd2-f9a9c369f506@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <443d57ff-d040-078e-8ad3-94f0c3458478@dancol.org>
On 5/14/20 7:59 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> We should make all of these things consistent.
We can't reasonably change the behavior of (list) and of (make-list 0 0) in this
regard because there's just one empty list and lots of code relies on this fact.
So if we should make all of these things consistent then we should leave the
behavior alone and change the documentation to match the behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-15 1:36 make-vector documentation is wrong Daniel Colascione
2020-05-15 2:46 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-15 2:59 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-15 3:19 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-05-15 3:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 6:34 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-15 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-15 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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