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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Appending the new stuff to the auto-mode-alist
Message-ID: <3515@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 00:27:54 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 00:27:54 1987
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Summary: nconc? just say no.

> `append' doesn't work because it's non-destructive; it doesn't alter its 
> arguments.  The destructive version, `nconc', should be used instead.

Gaa!  Please don't use destructive functions for trivial things like
this.  Use of the destructive functions invariably leads to disaster
when their use is not well planned and documented.