"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only real solution would be to add a first element that's neither > a symbol nor a string, nor a cons cell whose car is a symbol or a > string. Such as 0 or []. That is sort of ugly. It would be cleaner > to say that lists of symbols can't be used at all. As you've said, > that would be no great loss. > > Let's recall how this came up: as a side effect of the change to allow > symbols as the car of cons cells in an alist. We could allow symbols > when they come from the car of an element, and not allow them when > they don't come from there. > > Any objections?
IMO, it looks like another arbitrary exception -- we allow a list of strings, but not a list of symbols. But I wont object... -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
