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bug#24875: 26.0.50; In Dotted Pair Notation, the read function returns C
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#24875: 26.0.50; In Dotted Pair Notation, the read function returns CDR if CAR is absent |
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Fri, 04 Nov 2016 17:00:27 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
On Nov 04 2016, Chunyang Xu <mail@xuchunyang.me> wrote:
> For example, I eval this in the *scratch* buffer:
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> (read "( . 123)")
> ⇒ 123
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> (read "(1 . ( . (3 . nil)))")
> ⇒ (1 3)
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> I can't find explanation about this behavior in elisp manual. Is it
> expected?
The Emacs Lisp reader has always worked that way.
Andreas.
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