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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | bug#15117: 24.3.50; doc of `(forward|backward)-*': state return value |
Date: | Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:01:56 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > These are NOT side-effect functions. They modify nothing except >> > the cursor position. >> How is that not a side-effect? > You are clearly arguing for the sake of arguing, now. Not at all. > Motion functions are not what is typically meant by a side-effect > function. Says you. For me (and most definitions of side-effects I've ever seen), a side-effecting function is something like a function where the calls can't simply be replaced by their return value. Stefan
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