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Re: sortcar and sort-subr
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David Kastrup |
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Re: sortcar and sort-subr |
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24 May 2003 19:11:02 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
> While adding a `predicate' argument to sort-subr, I noticed that
> it uses a `sortcar' function (if fboundp) that I've never heard
> of and that doesn't exist and seems never to have existed.
Probably some remniscent of dynamic binding: use something like
(flet ((softcar some-function)) (sort-subr ...
> Any objection to removing it (and adding a `predicate' argument for
> when your keys can't conveniently be numbers or strings) ?
Perhaps do a grep through other sources first to make sure it is
never used in that (ugly) manner.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum