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Re: emacs-lisp/cl.el (pushnew): void-variable x


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: emacs-lisp/cl.el (pushnew): void-variable x
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:23:11 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>     Honestly, I think using `add-to-list' here makes no sense.  Since we
>     have the variable as a symbol and we're macro-expanding, we can just
>     use `(unless (member ,element ,var) (setq ,var (cons ,element ,var)))
>     That'll be a lot more efficient than going through a function call to
>     add-to-list, using an aux-var accessed via symbol-value and set and
>     checking `append' arg etc...

> Maybe you're right, but note that it can't actually be `member' in
> this case, not by default, since the default comparison function for
> pushnew is `eql'.

So you agree with me: it makes no sense to use add-to-list since add-to-list
uses `equal'.


        Stefan ;-)




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