GNU bug report logs - #4433
23.1; dolist vs dolist

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:25:05 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, wontfix

Fixed in version 24.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 4433 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4433: 23.1; dolist vs dolist
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:58:46 +0200

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Even more important is to document this in the Elisp manual. State
> clearly that `dolist' (the one provided by Emacs, without cl.el) is
> not the same as the `dolist' of Common Lisp or the `dolist' of cl.el,
> both of which support `return-from', and so on.

If you have a definition of `return-from', then you have the cl.el
`dolist', so I don't really see the point.

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