From: Felix Lee <flee@teleport.com>
Subject: Re: continuing problem with gnus-change-server
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 05:11:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199711281309.FAA01598@mail1.teleport.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of 25 Nov 1997 19:55:21 +0100. <m37m9whkh2.fsf@sparky.gnus.org>
> > Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
> > <(nil nil)
> > sort((nil) <)
> > If I execute (sort '(nil) '<), emacs successfully returns (nil).
> There is something odd about sort. It sometimes works, and sometimes
> it doesn't.
> > Could gnus be trying to sort a list like (nil nil)?
> No.
hmm. that's the only way I can get this failure in
emacs-20.2. the backtrace is a little misleading though.
(sort '(nil nil nil nil nil) '<)
Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
<(nil nil)
sort((nil) <)
eval((sort (quote (nil)) (quote <)))
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-11-28 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-24 19:59 Dan Christensen
1997-11-25 18:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-28 13:11 ` Felix Lee [this message]
1997-11-28 14:55 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-11-28 23:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-29 10:40 ` Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
1997-12-01 15:52 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1998-04-29 19:03 ` That `sort' bug Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-29 20:27 ` SL Baur
1998-04-29 20:50 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-04-29 21:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-29 20:53 ` Dan Christensen
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