RE: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Thu 31 Dec 2020 at 21:55, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> The Lisp definitions I posted don't have these problems.  They handle
> circular and dotted lists fine.  For dotted lists, the length returned
> is always the same as what it would be for a proper list equal to the
> dotted list but with the last cdr wrapped in `list'.

The predicates are trying to fix cases where people use length.

(length '(1 2 . 3))
=>
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp 3)