GNU bug report logs - #33655
26.1; A small error in cl-member's documentation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xu Chunyang <mail <at> xuchunyang.me>

Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 03:54:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.1

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Xu Chunyang <mail <at> xuchunyang.me>
Cc: 33655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33655: 26.1; A small error in cl-member's documentation
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 01:40:11 +0200

Xu Chunyang <mail <at> xuchunyang.me> writes:

> (info "(cl) Lists as Sets") says
>
>> With no keyword arguments, ‘cl-member’ is equivalent to ‘memq’.
>
> It is not true, since cl-member uses eql by default, while memq uses eq.
>
>   (cl-member 1.0 '(1.0))
>   ;; => (1.0)
>   
>   (memq 1.0 '(1.0))
>   ;; => nil

Yup; the documentation is wrong here.  I've now removed that sentence
about memq from the manual on the Emacs trunk.

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