From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Strange results from sort-coding-systems Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:58:40 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87pskfcv7o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143046886 4810 80.91.229.2 (22 Mar 2006 17:01:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 22 18:01:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FM6hg-0004gZ-72 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:01:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FM6hf-0007Mk-7n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:00:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FM6gv-0007M1-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:00:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FM6gt-0007KB-Kt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FM6gt-0007Jv-8m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:00:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FM6hI-0005Fc-5H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:00:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FM6gZ-0004Ql-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:59:51 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:59:51 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:59:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87pskfcv7o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> 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:51966 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> (let ((pref (car (sort-coding-systems >> '(mule-utf-16-be mule-utf-16-le mule-utf-8))))) > > > sort-coding-systems is destructive, so you need to pass it a copy of > the list. Its doc string should mention that "The CODINGS list is modified by side effects", just like sort's doc string. -- Kevin Rodgers