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From: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca
To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: (remove) doesn't work
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0405181825390.5070-100000@diamond.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0405181803440.5070-200000@diamond.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca>

On Tue, 18 May 2004 mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the (remove) form simply returns its second argument
> instead of doing its job.  Test case attached - this will fail regardless

Further to that: it seems it works if the first argument (the thing being
removed) is an atom.  You can do 10-1=9, but not 10-3=7.  Both my test
case and apparently tailhook.g depend on the documented behaviour of
removing a multi-element list from another multi-element list.
-- 
Matthew Skala
mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca                    Embrace and defend.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-18 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-18 22:12 mskala
2004-05-18 22:26 ` mskala [this message]
2004-05-19  0:30 ` Eric McDonald
2004-05-19 12:24   ` mskala
2004-05-19 15:44     ` Jim Kingdon
2004-05-19 21:10       ` mskala
2004-06-08  3:10         ` Eric McDonald

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