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Subject: Re: newsticker-start: Recursive laod error
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Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:

>   (= 0 (length LIST)) === LIST

sorry, this is wrong.  it should read:

  (< 0 (length LIST)) === LIST

that is, an empty list has length 0, and is equivalent to nil.
anyway, the (valid) rest of the message relies on this property.

thi