Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Emacs-wiki version 2.62 released

[fouvry+emacs-wiki]

,-- On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:38:48 +0900, Sacha Chua wrote:
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| Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:
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| >  - emacs-wiki.el, emacs-wiki-publish.el: Fix major problem with Emacs
| >    from CVS not allowing the `cons' function to have anything but a
| >    list as its second parameter.  Had to redo the representation of
| >    `emacs-wiki-file-alist' to work around this.
| 
| You're serious? That sucks. How are we supposed to do (foo . bar)
| cells now? Hmm...

In the Emacs CVS version from Friday, (cons 'a 'b) works.  I
would recommend not to switch too quickly when such problems are
encountered.  The construct is sooo common in Lisp, that just
about all software would need a rewrite if that was changed.

Frederik