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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 03 May 1997 22:11:26 +0200
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

> You can't use a circular list as a test.  Fcapcar calls Flength,
> which loops endlessly in the list.

True, sorry.

>  > Besides, I wasn't aware that quitting a loop depended on
>  > functions being called using `Ffuncall' -- isn't QUIT
>  > supposed to be handled by independent IO routines?
> 
> Typing C-g usually just sets a flag.  QUIT (a hairy macro) must
> be run to check the flag and let you escape.

Can't we then add an explicit QUIT there?

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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