From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10095 invoked by alias); 18 May 2004 22:26:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10088 invoked from network); 18 May 2004 22:26:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO s-hertogenbosch.execulink.net) (199.166.6.44) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 18 May 2004 22:26:41 -0000 Received: from diamond.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca (ppp147.ac2.56k.execulink.com [209.213.229.147]) by s-hertogenbosch.execulink.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4IMQeL08038 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 18:26:40 -0400 Received: from localhost (mskala@localhost) by diamond.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i4IMRE106934 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 18:27:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:26:00 -0000 From: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: (remove) doesn't work In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00341.txt.bz2 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/