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-rw-r--r--lisp/emacs-lisp/seq.el20
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/seq.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/seq.el
index 0d9483aecb6..1b8d86563a1 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/seq.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/seq.el
@@ -168,21 +168,25 @@ if positive or too small if negative)."
((or (stringp sequence) (vectorp sequence)) (substring sequence start end))
((listp sequence)
(let (len
- (errtext (format "Bad bounding indices: %s, %s" start end)))
+ (orig-start start)
+ (orig-end end))
(and end (< end 0) (setq end (+ end (setq len (length sequence)))))
(if (< start 0) (setq start (+ start (or len (setq len (length sequence))))))
(unless (>= start 0)
- (error "%s" errtext))
+ (error "Start index out of bounds: %s" orig-start))
(when (> start 0)
(setq sequence (nthcdr (1- start) sequence))
- (or sequence (error "%s" errtext))
+ (unless sequence
+ (error "Start index out of bounds: %s" orig-start))
(setq sequence (cdr sequence)))
(if end
- (let ((res nil))
- (while (and (>= (setq end (1- end)) start) sequence)
- (push (pop sequence) res))
- (or (= (1+ end) start) (error "%s" errtext))
- (nreverse res))
+ (let ((n (- end start)))
+ (when (or (< n 0)
+ (if len
+ (> end len)
+ (and (> n 0) (null (nthcdr (1- n) sequence)))))
+ (error "End index out of bounds: %s" orig-end))
+ (take n sequence))
(copy-sequence sequence))))
(t (error "Unsupported sequence: %s" sequence))))