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bug#24875: 26.0.50; In Dotted Pair Notation, the read function returns C
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#24875: 26.0.50; In Dotted Pair Notation, the read function returns CDR if CAR is absent |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:32:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Chunyang Xu <mail@xuchunyang.me> writes:
> For example, I eval this in the *scratch* buffer:
>
> (read "( . 123)")
> ⇒ 123
>
> (read "(1 . ( . (3 . nil)))")
> ⇒ (1 3)
>
> I can't find explanation about this behavior in elisp manual. Is it
> expected?
That is indeed very eccentric behaviour, so we should probably mention
it somewhere? (I guess we can't change it.)
Anybody got an opinion here, or a way that we can describe it in the
manual except pointing at the examples and then going ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?
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- bug#24875: 26.0.50; In Dotted Pair Notation, the read function returns CDR if CAR is absent,
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