Hi,

> * Bjoern Hoefling
> | Hello everybody,
> 
> hi, there,
> 
> | I have traced down a problem in a big part of code to the following
> | strange behaviour of sort:
> 
> actually, the behavior of `sort' is well documented and returning values
> through side effects it _not_ an established pattern in Lisp, so it's your

...

> of a function if you need the return value.
> 
> #\Erik
> 

right! In a nutshell:

(sort ll #'string<)

is bad,

(setq ll (sort ll #'string<))

is good.


Marcus
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