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From: | Fabrice Popineau |
Subject: | Re: member inconsistency? |
Date: | Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:20:11 +0100 |
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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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