Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Emacs-wiki version 2.62 released

[Mark Triggs]

Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:

> Sacha Chua <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>  - emacs-wiki.el, emacs-wiki-publish.el: Fix major problem with Emacs
>>>    from CVS not allowing the `cons' function to have anything but a
>>>    list as its second parameter.  Had to redo the representation of
>>>    `emacs-wiki-file-alist' to work around this.
>>
>> You're serious? That sucks. How are we supposed to do (foo . bar)
>> cells now? Hmm...
>
> Here's a test case.

[...]

> Do a C-u M-C-x on each one and then M-x cons-test-case-n (for n in
> {1-3}), and step through the functions.  For me, cases 1 and 2 fail
> with a "Wrong type argument: listp, name-of-string".  Case 3 still
> works fine though.

For what it's worth, they all worked for me (I'm using a CVS Emacs from
October the 18th).  It'd be very strange for cons to behave like
this--you haven't got something that's redefined cons behind your back,
or anything strange like that?  :o)

Mark

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