From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Help with recursive destructive function Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 01:46:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87bmaqylcu.fsf@web.de> References: <87efiqzzd2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87bmdu3mtf.fsf@web.de> <87zi1e9kju.fsf@web.de> <87o9hs3aht.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87bmds9qcg.fsf@web.de> <87k1sg185t.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <044bdbf1-39a2-0e71-ec79-3d375d9109c8@gmail.com> <877eof1k7y.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wowe2sql.fsf@web.de> <877eoe2dma.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tvrgqnug.fsf@web.de> <87vabvbfrj.fsf@web.de> <87d0y30wkn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878t8mtiqz.fsf@web.de> <87bmdixji9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87y3glomjm.fsf@web.de> <87fu03gk13.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532821503 32169 195.159.176.226 (28 Jul 2018 23:45:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 23:45:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 29 01:44:59 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fjYtP-0008Gn-3V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 01:44:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46697 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjYvV-0001N2-NE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2018 19:47:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjYvO-0001Mv-MU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2018 19:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjYvJ-0002Oz-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2018 19:47:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:34217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fjYvJ-0002NB-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2018 19:46:57 -0400 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([94.218.214.151]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LoHP7-1gC3Ba2S0v-00gIge; Sun, 29 Jul 2018 01:46:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87fu03gk13.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Sat, 28 Jul 2018 13:52:40 -0700") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:g1iAQDUBMdB9APpb1aaECv5lgySN7Md6QlVxUvRhaCksP5XDPMh pHMS3GKExCgF3K9dLWC/gl6DJzHz3dUmg3vQXEweeJHstSkojePtaWV7ljObSmYuaKDAIpf 34zZi0/QvNwS0GoNRRmnuiR7v49asDX50cdMIyuhvXkaBsNN6z4kUVi/VWr3oAHCzH41uW7 W9ji1NPCzc1LeplAX23oA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:W9Qwz6Gwyok=:wh3fh64WCKD7/rYUh0IlvQ nyfwYhQ/RZcRPrBh87fWupl30NU4qxsSmj+J7CoqAaLPV7RbOOHYfxiPex2ilYRtA/gVFyvbC +tDJ59F4LCPju1AlmtyzZjVT8Pc2AEWnZFsgU6gwcnaGAYoJY/v3SeAfRH1i9K+yutjNT4TU6 eYOXUrqPO6TUUUIB4dUBRdnQ9rZvw0XStPD86D+yR6Ngof7/p9TbRJfAe3dqI9Lzm1zCfv65o S5zPt8ItWp58dkxzXqmzD4+sCqTdFszWxIJqFSLuJthnhFhjI/sDnm1w1eDrWyoo9moiFocM9 IdwR9fZN4ArkQxNnojCoqRXdocEgVbsEdn04GAzQkNjt/QKSQU5wsvHlNqrx2VbtHUARSawYV wSQ3pHu4iJHsC+kZBZBEEek2yUJgT6zs7+IPezrK0h5EoVvZf9H9Yin0HjNSxdjF3Z4Aq2HX4 NTB85oJhHRP3u0+euuY6q7pOy9xFvm4w762x414d6Qs9oQaxwsjMfkuId3230E9UjyUxPHC25 z/kSIard9Invfj/e5BS7MYVOBwMOeuX32js0dacK2cp+4c3UeFce7Ur4vtpNF+/zJv9CLHQhz 2M9OJKzGJyoMslOAghYftygwxLt/dg+EhxzFU/F4uifas7ythd5+M1f236JErcwnOqPjqLeO4 MAgsIYLUPAp5uKlomttjXQo7/XO8xEbqjpRlKhO+lgsNHy2+QH6OrzzfJx0EWoMdjHxHTwlhB pjzc06BGwOzONw29mtrJtTunwE3qkemYEcLPyFZt/QZ7tZ8vhN78h5eq6whqVQqQv4zHvu7X X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227933 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > After weeks of avoiding this, I'm nearly there. This version does > everything I need it to, EXCEPT I have somehow lost the ability to > handle single-atom data, which was the whole point of passing in a > gv-ref. I don't understand why [...] Did this really ever work like this? Because, you said you want to alter the given data. If you pass the function a string, and you really want to alter that string, you can't just call `upcase' because that returns a new string. You would have to write a function that alters the string itself. You could also return a new string, but then there is no need for `gv-ref'. Michael.