Re: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

On 08/15/2012 07:34 PM, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <a926tjFeslU1@mid.individual.net>,
>   Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> the documentation of `thing-at-point' states that such function 
returns "the
>> thing around or next to point".  This is not the case with either
>> (thing-at-point
>> 'symbol) or (thing-at-point 'sexp), for they both may return the thing
>> before
>> point.  Try it with the following snippet (! symbolizes the point):
>
> Doesn't "next to" include both immediately before and immediately after?

I stand corrected after having consulted a dictionary.  Then it is
(thing-at-point 'list) that is misbehaving.

>
>>
>> A!
>> (A)!
>>
>> On the contrary, (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'list) returns nil as
>> expected in this
>> snippet:
>>
>> (A)!
>>
>> Is this inconsistent behaviour or am I missing something?
>>
>> Tested on GNU Emacs 24.1 started with "emacs -Q".
>>
>> Thank you.
>
> I think this is a problem with the thing-at-point handler for 'list.
> It's doing some weird stuff, that I think is intended to distinguide
> lists from sexps.

Aren't lists sexps as well?