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(Building Lists): Remove obsolete Emacs 20 usage of `append'.

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Chong Yidong 2009-02-22 00:19:57 +00:00
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@ -489,14 +489,6 @@ is itself a list, then its elements become in effect elements of the
result list. If the final element is not a list, the result is a
dotted list since its final @sc{cdr} is not @code{nil} as required
in a true list.
In Emacs 20 and before, the @code{append} function also allowed
integers as (non last) arguments. It converted them to strings of
digits, making up the decimal print representation of the integer, and
then used the strings instead of the original integers. This obsolete
usage no longer works. The proper way to convert an integer to a
decimal number in this way is with @code{format} (@pxref{Formatting
Strings}) or @code{number-to-string} (@pxref{String Conversion}).
@end defun
Here is an example of using @code{append}: