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Subject: Re: About elisp, Lossing data after sort
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"htbest2000" <htbest2000@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mar 14, 12:39 pm, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> In article <1173837100.827152.92...@l75g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
>>  "htbest2000" <htbest2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >     (sort list '<)
>>
>> Change that to:
>>
>>       (setq list (sort list '<))
>>
> Thanks in advance!

Too late!


But do you understand why you should use (setq list (sort list '<))
instead of merely (sort list '<)?

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