From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp . Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:30:29 -0400 Message-ID: <19024.4165.105934.813448@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <907065090907040600x6c452684n93bc105623d3dacf@mail.gmail.com> <907065090907041913k35238898uca5ea25e90ab7da2@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Glenn Morris , 3752@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246761479 6469 80.91.229.12 (5 Jul 2009 02:37:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 02:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3752@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: waterloo Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 05 04:37:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MNHbz-0002d9-M1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:37:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54916 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNHbz-0006Sb-1u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:37:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNHbi-0006K1-M6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNHbd-0006JE-Qb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:37:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41414 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNHbd-0006J4-G3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:54333) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNHbc-0004lY-RE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n652bPYT004184; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:37:27 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n652Z8CS003648; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:35:08 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Glenn Morris Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:35:08 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3752 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3752-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B3752.12467610343089 (code B ref 3752); Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:35:08 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3752) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 5 Jul 2009 02:30:34 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n652UUhq003082 for <3752@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:30:31 -0700 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MNHUr-0000dg-4x; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:30:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <907065090907041913k35238898uca5ea25e90ab7da2@mail.gmail.com> X-Attribution: GM X-Mailer: VM (www.wonderworks.com/vm), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs) X-Hue: cyan X-Ran: tJgz@`#H*$7JEMd+U`m$`MK-O>=+"gr@Gf]DO"fO>{W>_?wz_TN\iwlg7ekH+}FA\Dn)^+ X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:37:33 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:29179 Archived-At: [Please use "reply to all".] waterloo wrote (on Sun, 5 Jul 2009 at 10:13 +0800): > yes,it is clearer . thanks > > In 11.1.2 An Example:`print-elements-of-list', I can not understand why > there is a `nil' in the context . This is explained at the end of the section: Since the last expression in the function is the `while' loop, and since `while' loops always return `nil', a `nil' is printed after the last element of the list.