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Re: member inconsistency?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: member inconsistency? |
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Mon, 01 Feb 2016 06:04:06 -0500 |
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> It makes it harder to catch the bug if you
> inadvertently call member with its second
> argument not being a sequence ?
There are two ways to look at this:
* Lists should end in nil, and if they don't, functions should complain.
* It is useful generality if functions accept lists that end
in some other atom.
I don't see that the first is obviously preferable.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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