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Re: Fix nreverse
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Fix nreverse |
Date: |
Tue, 20 May 2014 22:53:16 -0400 |
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> 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
- Fix nreverse, Leo Liu, 2014/05/20
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