From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: howto: rotate a ring Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:23:03 -0500 Message-ID: <878x132hug.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <18376.50975.406822.881715@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204345401 29877 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2008 04:23:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 04:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: raman@users.sf.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 01 05:23:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JVJGD-0001u9-OG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:23:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVJFh-0007lo-1k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:23:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVJFc-0007jN-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVJFZ-0007h7-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVJFZ-0007gy-NB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:23:05 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.193.61]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVJFZ-0003xX-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:23:05 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59308 ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JVJFY-0003dm-Ag; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:23:04 -0600 In-Reply-To: <18376.50975.406822.881715@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (T. V. Raman's message of "Fri\, 29 Feb 2008 19\:01\:51 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:90954 Archived-At: "T. V. Raman" writes: > The documentation for ring.el implies that there must be a > ring-rotate function -- but there doesn't appear to be an > explicit ring-rotate function? Indeed. I don't see anything either -- I think the documentation is just wrong. Maybe it's referring to the wraparound property of rings (that if you pass too high an index, the appropriate modulo will be performed, that sort of thing). Do you need `ring-rotate', or can we just remove that bit from the documentation? -Karl