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Re: trivial bug in eintr


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: trivial bug in eintr
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:06:05 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Ralph Moritz" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Emacs,
>
> edition 2.14 of the Emacs Lisp Introduction (eintr) says the
> following in section 7.5 (Node: setcar),
>
>  ...
>       (setq animals '(antelope giraffe lion tiger))
>  ...
>       (setcar animals 'hippopotamus)
>  ...
>       animals
>            => (hippopotamus giraffe lion tiger)
>
>  The first element on the list, `antelope' is replaced by `hippopotamus'.
>
>     So we can see that `setcar' did not add a new element to the list as
>  `cons' would have; it replaced `giraffe' with `hippopotamus'; it
>  _changed_ the list.
>
> I believe that `giraffe' should be changed to `antelope' in the last
> paragraph, above.

Fixed.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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