Re: [bug] (mapconcat 'identity '(1 2 3) ".")

Sunday, 13 February 2000

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>>>> "Gunnar" == Gunnar Evermann
<ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk&gt; writes: 
    Gunnar> karlheg(a)bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
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> (mapconcat 'identity '(1 2 3) ".")
> 
> Returns a wta, sequencep, 1 
    Gunnar> I think that's a feautre. We don't concat integers (i.e.: (concat 1
2)
    Gunnar> signals an error). See the docstring for concat.

    Gunnar> you could do: (mapconcat 'int-to-string '(1 2 3) ".")

 That's obvious now that you point it out.

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> This breaks PCL-CVS release v2_9_7, and no doubt other XEmacs
software. 
    Gunnar> I guess it breaks only FSFEmacs software :-)

 Nope.  The same change will work there too.  I'll fix it.

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