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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | bug#18837: 25.0.50; `sort` -- modify function to preserve original list. |
| Date: | Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:44:45 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> The doc-string for the function `sort` states that `SEQ is modified by
> side effects`; however, it does not state in what way the original
> list gets modified or why such a feature might somehow be useful.
The "usefulness" is to avoid allocating another list in the case where
the unsorted list won't be used later on anyway.
Stefan
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