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bug#28627: 24.5; doc of `copy-sequence'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#28627: 24.5; doc of `copy-sequence' |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:04:31 +0300 |
> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:40:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> The doc should make clear that there is only one empty-sequence object,
> for each type of sequence. In particular, `copy-sequence' does not
> create a new sequence object if the sequence is empty.
Thanks. I didn't feel we should guarantee what we have in the current
implementation, especially as describing all the details might be
tedious (does "vectors" include bool-vector or doesn't it?). So I
just added a vague statement that copying an empty object may yield
the same object. I think this is enough for Lisp programmers to
produce a valid and future-proof code.