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Manual bug on REMOVE



    Date: Tue, 23 Jan 90 01:57 EST
    From: RWK@FUJI.ILA.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM (Robert W. Kerns)

	Date: Sat, 20 Jan 90 01:16:56 EST
	From: barmar@think.com

	   Date: Fri, 19 Jan 90 12:05:38+0900
	   From: kddlab!atr-la.atr.co.jp!myers@uunet.UU.NET (John K. Myers)

	   Gen.7.2 manual 2A p 149 line 2: "REMOVE finds the first instance of a cons
	   whose car is EQL to the indicator, and removes the pair from the assoc list."
	   line 10, example: "(remove 'ruby gems) => [removed list]".
	   The REMOVE key in our system defaults to IDENTITY, the correct example is of course

	     (remove 'ruby gems :key #'car) => [removed list].

	No, the manual is right.  The :key function is applied to the car of each
	cons, not to each cons.

    Uh, Barry, the manual is wrong.  GEMS is an ALIST.  :KEY is applies to
    each "bucket" of the ALIST.  GEMS is a list of these buckets.  But each
    bucket is a CONS.

		(setq gems (list 'diamond 'ruby 'emerald)) => (DIAMOND RUBY EMERALD)
    This isn't what it gets set to in the manual.

		(remove 'ruby gems) => (DIAMOND EMERALD)

    The section the example appears in, is trying to explain
    operations on alists, not REMOVE.

							barmar

This and a related example have been fixed, although not in time to make
it into the 8.0 documentation.  Thanks for pointing out the problem.