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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix nreverse
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 22:53:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4n0jeu4c.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34n0jc1p6.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo Liu's message of "Wed, 21 May 2014 10:20:21 +0800")

> I find the decision to leave out strings in nreverse inconvenient.  Why
> don't we dispatch to reverse when SEQ is string instead of throwing an
> error? This would make nreverse and reverse symmetric.  I hope "N" mean
> we `may' not `must' destructively modify the argument. Objections?

I guess it's OK if we change the meaning of nreverse to "may modify
destructively", but then please change the docstring to say so, and
*generically* (rather than saying explicitly how that's interpreted for
each possible type).


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-21  2:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-21  2:20 Fix nreverse Leo Liu
2014-05-21  2:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-05-21  4:06   ` Leo Liu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-05-21 14:07 Barry OReilly
2014-05-21 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-22  0:15 ` Leo Liu

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