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bug#18555: 24.4.50; butlast and nbutlast doesn't handle improper lists


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#18555: 24.4.50; butlast and nbutlast doesn't handle improper lists
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:21:50 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

>   (nbutlast '(1 2 . 3))
>
> throws an error due to `length' which can be fixed
> by using safe-length instead.
>
>   (butlast '(1 2 . 3))
>
> still throws an error due to copy-sequence not taking
> improper list.
>
> What is the right thing to do?

Don't do that then.

Andreas.

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