From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: 12351@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:52:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cdwqvzqso4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ligpfwcy.fsf@boostpro.com> (Dave Abrahams's message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:58:53 -0700")
Dave Abrahams wrote:
> (parse-colon-path ":") yields (nil nil) but there's nothing in the
> docstring to indicate that empty path entries will get turned into nil.
> Either the docstring needs to be updated, or parse-colon-path should
> return (delq nil cd-list).
Making a change equivalent to the latter has caused
http://debbugs.gnu.org/13296
Obviously we need the nils to remain, so I will put them back and just
mention that empty elements return nil. It's not worth handling the
minor aesthetic annoyance of (nil nil) specially.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-30 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 18:58 bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil Dave Abrahams
2012-09-16 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
2012-12-30 18:52 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2012-12-30 19:53 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-30 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-30 20:37 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-30 22:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-31 3:08 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 7:14 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 12:59 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 10:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-31 1:40 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-31 3:11 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 6:56 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 7:07 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 12:58 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 16:10 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
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