Hi Jon,
> I can accept your explanation, but then I think the docs should make it
> clear that the sorted list is what's returned by the function, and that
> the state of the "input list" afterwards can be somewhat unpredictable.
I agree that the documentation is rather terse, but that's a featur
Hi Tomas,
I can accept your explanation, but then I think the docs should make it
clear that the sorted list is what's returned by the function, and that
the state of the "input list" afterwards can be somewhat unpredictable.
/Jon
> Hi Jon,
>
>> (let L (3 2 5 4) (sort L) L)
>>
>> should give the
Hi Jon,
> (let L (3 2 5 4) (sort L) L)
>
> should give the same result as
>
> (let L (3 2 5 4) (sort L))
it should not;-)
> Why couldn't L simply be given the same value?
L is given the same value which you print in the first case. In the
second case, you printed out the return value of 'sort'
