* #'clrhash always returns nil @ 2008-01-25 9:34 Aidan Kehoe 2008-01-25 10:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Aidan Kehoe @ 2008-01-25 9:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: bug-gnu-emacs This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit) of 2004-03-22 on cm-test configured using `configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --localstatedir=/var --datadir=/usr/share --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --without-toolkit-scroll-bars' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil locale-coding-system: nil default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: In this emacs: (clrhash (make-hash-table)) => nil In Common Lisp, as documented here: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_clrhas.htm#clrhash (clrhash (make-hash-table)) => #<EQL hash-table with 0 entries @ #x71735f42> In XEmacs: (clrhash (make-hash-table)) => #<hash-table size 0/29 0x54e994> Is the GNU behaviour an oversight? It seems needlessly incompatible. Recent input: ESC x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g RET Recent messages: (emacs-21.2) For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading emacsbug...done -- ¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghé, que tuvo que huir precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: #'clrhash always returns nil 2008-01-25 9:34 #'clrhash always returns nil Aidan Kehoe @ 2008-01-25 10:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen 2008-01-25 11:29 ` Aidan Kehoe 2008-01-26 15:59 ` Richard Stallman 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Thien-Thi Nguyen @ 2008-01-25 10:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Aidan Kehoe; +Cc: bug-gnu-emacs () Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> () Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:34:38 +0100 In XEmacs: (clrhash (make-hash-table)) => #<hash-table size 0/29 0x54e994> Is the GNU behaviour an oversight? It seems needlessly incompatible. Probably oversight; i have changed `clrhash' to return TABLE for Emacs 23. I will refrain from changing it in Emacs 22 unless someone can convince me such "compatibility change" is considered a "bugfix". thi ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: #'clrhash always returns nil 2008-01-25 10:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen @ 2008-01-25 11:29 ` Aidan Kehoe 2008-01-26 15:59 ` Richard Stallman 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Aidan Kehoe @ 2008-01-25 11:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Thien-Thi Nguyen; +Cc: bug-gnu-emacs Ar an cúigiú lá is fiche de mí Eanair, scríobh Thien-Thi Nguyen: > Probably oversight; i have changed `clrhash' to return TABLE for > Emacs 23. I will refrain from changing it in Emacs 22 unless > someone can convince me such "compatibility change" is considered > a "bugfix". Thank you! It might also be nice to document the return value of #'puthash in its docstring. -- ¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghé, que tuvo que huir precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: #'clrhash always returns nil 2008-01-25 10:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen 2008-01-25 11:29 ` Aidan Kehoe @ 2008-01-26 15:59 ` Richard Stallman 2008-01-26 16:59 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Richard Stallman @ 2008-01-26 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Thien-Thi Nguyen; +Cc: kehoea, bug-gnu-emacs Probably oversight; i have changed `clrhash' to return TABLE for Emacs 23. I will refrain from changing it in Emacs 22 unless someone can convince me such "compatibility change" is considered a "bugfix". It is a bug fix. The bug is minor, but the fix is safe, so may as well fix it. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: #'clrhash always returns nil 2008-01-26 15:59 ` Richard Stallman @ 2008-01-26 16:59 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Thien-Thi Nguyen @ 2008-01-26 16:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: rms; +Cc: kehoea, bug-gnu-emacs () Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> () Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:59:23 -0500 It is a bug fix. The bug is minor, but the fix is safe, so may as well fix it. thanks for the clarification. now installed on EMACS_22_BASE. thi ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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