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changeset 102179:35c54fe56072
(Building Lists): Remove obsolete Emacs 20 usage of `append'.
| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
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| date | Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:19:57 +0000 |
| parents | 7277f599a521 |
| children | d23669b68ef2 |
| files | doc/lispref/lists.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/lispref/lists.texi Sun Feb 22 00:19:39 2009 +0000 +++ b/doc/lispref/lists.texi Sun Feb 22 00:19:57 2009 +0000 @@ -489,14 +489,6 @@ result list. If the final element is not a list, the result is a dotted list since its final @sc{cdr} is not @code{nil} as required in a true list. - -In Emacs 20 and before, the @code{append} function also allowed -integers as (non last) arguments. It converted them to strings of -digits, making up the decimal print representation of the integer, and -then used the strings instead of the original integers. This obsolete -usage no longer works. The proper way to convert an integer to a -decimal number in this way is with @code{format} (@pxref{Formatting -Strings}) or @code{number-to-string} (@pxref{String Conversion}). @end defun Here is an example of using @code{append}: