unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: plist-put modification by side effect
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:55:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsc9f9j2.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090201162314.GA13754@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Dan Davison's message of "Sun, 1 Feb 2009 11:23:14 -0500")

() Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
() Sun, 1 Feb 2009 11:23:14 -0500

   So if I've understood this then I think the docstring is inaccurate
   since `The PLIST is modified by side effects.' is not necessarily
   true.

When something is consed onto the head of a list, the list is not modified.

thi




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-02  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-31 21:06 plist-put modification by side effect Dan Davison
2009-01-31 23:02 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-02-01 16:23   ` Dan Davison
     [not found]     ` <mailman.6441.1233508294.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-01 18:22       ` Barry Margolin
2009-02-02  9:55     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.6500.1233568748.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-02 18:07       ` Andreas Politz
     [not found] <mailman.6361.1233436001.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-31 22:46 ` Helmut Eller

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87wsc9f9j2.fsf@ambire.localdomain \
    --to=ttn@gnuvola.org \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).