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From: Daniel Schoepe <daniel@schoepe.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Side effects of `sort'
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:34:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5rkt37t.fsf@schoepe.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2sjhsdodo.fsf@boostpro.com>

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On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:04:19 -0500, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
> Lisp doesn't really have access to "the input list" in any real sense:

Oh, that's what I was missing: sort can't really do something like (setq
foo (sort foo)) by itself. I guess that renders my point moot.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Cheers,
Daniel


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-01 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-01 19:58 Side effects of `sort' Daniel Schoepe
2012-03-01 20:52 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-03-01 21:04 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-03-01 21:34   ` Daniel Schoepe [this message]
2012-03-01 22:25   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-02  6:13     ` Miles Bader

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