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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> > hmm.  that's the only way I can get this failure in
> > emacs-20.2.  the backtrace is a little misleading though.
> 
> It all makes sense now.  The backtrace is FUBAR because `sort' changes 
> its first argument destructively!

Ah!  It all makes sense now.

One more of life's big mysteries solved.  I'll slap some `(delq nil ...)'
around some lists that I feed to sort, and Bob's your uncle.
(Whatever that means.)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen