From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Return value not as expected in Emacs Lisp function Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:00:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8738qlfic3.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375909532 28312 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2013 21:05:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 21:05:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 07 23:05:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V7AvD-0003Rg-Vx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 23:05:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34375 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V7AvD-0005N2-Ho for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V7Auu-0005Ln-R4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V7Aun-0008JT-Bt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V7Aun-0008HM-4R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V7Aul-00036D-IO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 23:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-243-106.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.243.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 23:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-243-106.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 23:05:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-243-106.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aYpsQhq6s8hqdnlGg78tCaNo/Jc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92771 Archived-At: > so the value of 'result' is just fine in the second-last line of the > fun. > But the return value is not what I would expect Maybe there's something going on in the way you "get the return value". IOW give us more details to reproduce the problem. Stefan