From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: replacing a certain element in a list with another
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:25:49 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvoew8xcc2.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3u160cea8.fsf@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de
> It might be helpful to add a comment to the docstring or info page
> for nreverse saying that its argument is modified such that
> afterwards it is a 1-element list containing the last element of the
> reversed list.
I don't think this particular aspect of the behavior should be documented.
Maybe we should add a note saying "the argument should not be used
afterwards", but even that would not be very convincing.
I think the only reasonable thing to put is a "don't use this unless you
know what you're doing".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-23 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-30 8:38 replacing a certain element in a list with another Klaus Berndl
2003-09-30 9:05 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-30 9:59 ` Klaus Berndl
2003-09-30 10:03 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-30 10:19 ` Klaus Berndl
2003-09-30 12:12 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-09-30 14:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-30 14:26 ` Klaus Berndl
2003-09-30 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-30 14:28 ` Klaus Berndl
2003-09-30 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-30 15:30 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-09-30 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-30 18:27 ` Roland Winkler
2003-09-30 20:01 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-16 20:52 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-22 20:06 ` Roland Winkler
2003-10-22 20:32 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-23 12:46 ` Roland Winkler
2003-10-23 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-10-23 15:30 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-23 15:30 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-23 15:18 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-23 22:03 ` Roland Winkler
2003-10-23 22:20 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-24 12:02 ` Roland Winkler
2003-10-24 15:06 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-25 11:25 ` Oliver Scholz
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