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Re: copy-sequence no longer copies rings


From: Johan Bockgård
Subject: Re: copy-sequence no longer copies rings
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:42:19 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Perhaps we should make `copy-sequence' copy dotted lists.  They are
> not sequences, but that doesn't necessarily mean `copy-sequence' must
> refuse to copy them.

XEmacs' version explicitly allows this

    Documentation: 
    Return a copy of list, vector, bit vector or string SEQUENCE. 
    The elements of a list or vector are not copied; they are shared 
    with the original. SEQUENCE may be a dotted list. 

-- 
Johan Bockgård





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