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bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence
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uzibalqa |
Subject: |
bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:20:45 +0000 |
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On Monday, July 31st, 2023 at 6:36 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:42:28 +0000
> > From: uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> > the Swiss army knife of text editors" bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > Have been reading the documentation for "copy-sequence". The description,
> > specifically
> >
> > "The elements of a list, vector or record are not copied; they are
> > shared with the original."
> >
> > is not very clear about what it does and what one gets.
>
>
> As the doc string says: the elements are not copied. You get a new
> sequence whose elements are shared with the original one.
>
So it returns a copy but elements are not copied. So what happens exactly ?
You get a reference to the original ? When I modify the copy, the original
remains intact. It would help if the description in broadened, it is currently
too cryptic.
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, uzibalqa, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence,
uzibalqa <=
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, Dmitry Gutov, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, uzibalqa, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, Dmitry Gutov, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, uzibalqa, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, Drew Adams, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, uzibalqa, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, Drew Adams, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, uzibalqa, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/07/30
- bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence, uzibalqa, 2023/07/30