From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: That `sort' bug...
Date: 29 Apr 1998 22:50:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kig90oo9wt8.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "29 Apr 1998 21:03:53 +0200"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
> <(nil nil)
> sort((nil) <)
>
> Someone discovered why this happened, but I've forgotten what the
> solution was. Could that someone (or someone else) remind me?
`sort' modifies its first argument destructively, thus invalidating
the backtrace. This generates the same kind of backtrace:
(sort '(nil nil nil nil) '<)
The solution was to add `(delq nil LIST)' in an appropriate place or
two.
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-29 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-24 19:59 continuing problem with gnus-change-server Dan Christensen
1997-11-25 18:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-11-28 13:11 ` Felix Lee
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 [this message]
1998-04-29 21:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-29 20:53 ` Dan Christensen
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