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Mistake in GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, Section 5.3

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eric Wayman <ericwayman <at> fastmail.fm>

Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:55:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Wayman <ericwayman <at> fastmail.fm>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Mistake in GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, Section 5.3
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:53:34 -0400

With respect to

 -- Function: safe-length list

the text says

    "If LIST is not ‘nil’ or a cons cell, ‘safe-length’ returns 0."

But running

    (safe-length nil)

gives 0.

Best regards,
Eric Alan Wayman
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