Subject: Re: problem with delete From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: 2000/10/05 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3179724553025467@naggum.net> * tar@sevak.isi.edu (Thomas A. Russ) | Actually, it would seem to me that a conforming implementation could | return T and T for this example. There is no requirement that | REMOVE create a new list, just that it not modify the original list. Well, I asked you (or anyone) to explain why it _should_ return nil and t, not whether it _could_ return something else. | The hyperspec explicity says "The result of remove may share with | sequence". Of course the hyperspec also claims immediately before | that sentence "If any elements need to be removed, the result will | be a copy." In the case of all the removed elements being at the | front of the list that may not have really been the intention of the | committee to require a copy. Would you care to implement the remove that shares structure and compare it with one that does not share structure? I think this will be very illuminating. #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.