[alexandria-devel] #'shuffle docstring is misleading

Nikodemus Siivola nikodemus at random-state.net
Fri Mar 30 15:06:42 UTC 2012


On 19 March 2012 14:37, Orivej Desh <orivej at gmx.fr> wrote:

> #'shuffle docstring states that “Permuted sequence may share storage
> with the original one.”  Actually it destructively modifies the
> sequence.  In the case of vectors the two might be the same, but in the
> case of lists I would say that something like (sort (copy-list l) …)
> shares storage with the original list but (sort l …) does more than
> that.

Fixed, thanks for the heads-up.

Cheers,

 -- nikodemus




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