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Re: Fix nreverse


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Fix nreverse
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 22:53:16 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

> I find the decision to leave out strings in nreverse inconvenient.  Why
> don't we dispatch to reverse when SEQ is string instead of throwing an
> error? This would make nreverse and reverse symmetric.  I hope "N" mean
> we `may' not `must' destructively modify the argument. Objections?

I guess it's OK if we change the meaning of nreverse to "may modify
destructively", but then please change the docstring to say so, and
*generically* (rather than saying explicitly how that's interpreted for
each possible type).


        Stefan



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