[cl-containers-devel] Bug in PREDECESSOR?

[Gary King]

Hi Kai,

Thanks for the bug report;

> first of all I'd like to thank you for your amazing work. I'm just
> blown away by the scope and quality.

Thanks for the kind words; I'm glad you find it useful.

> The potential bug I'm referring to manifests itself when calling
> PREDECESSOR for an item that can't be found in the container

You're right and your analysis is spot on.

> I'm not
> sure what PREDECESSOR should do: signal a condition or return NIL.

I think a condition would make more sense...

> I tried to write a LIFT testcase, but my LIFT doesn't seem to
> understand the :TIMEOUT clause.
>

This will be fixed in the next update of LIFT. (yeah!)

I hope to get an update of both LIFT and cl-containers out today.

thanks again,
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