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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 73427-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73427: 29.4; Doc of `append` not quite complete/correct
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:43:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86cykuh9y2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DS7PR10MB52325AFC1DCB623060ADABECF36E2@DS7PR10MB5232.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)

> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:01:06 +0000
> From:  Drew Adams via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> See https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/82238/105 for a complete
> description of the doc bug (omission).
> 
> The doc, at least in the Elisp manual, should explicitly mention the
> case where all args except the last are nil and the last is a sequence
> (e.g. a string) that's not a proper list.
> 
> In that particular case the last argument is returned, as is - a
> non-list sequence. This is an exception to the otherwise correct
> statements that the result is a list (including perhaps a dotted list).

Thanks, fixed on the emacs-30 branch, and closing.





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2024-09-22 18:01 bug#73427: 29.4; Doc of `append` not quite complete/correct Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-23 11:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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