From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>, 33309@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33309: Add flatten-list?
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 12:36:00 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <058f4a0f-7ce4-49c4-ae54-0bc259bd82d1@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2fw7jsa.fsf@gmail.com>
FWIW, I don't think Emacs Lisp needs a flatten
function.
1. Even Common Lisp doesn't bother with one.
(And there are lots of Common Lisp
functions I'd sooner see added to Emacs.)
2. It's trivial to define when needed, and
there are not a lot of existing uses of it.
3. The functions you mention do not all behave
the same. Even their arg lists are not the
same. (But sure, they could all be made to
use a common version, if that were important.)
4. (flatten-list 42) => (42)
The doc string says nothing about the case
where the argument LIST (a bad name here)
is not a list. And if the arg need not be
a list then "-list" in the function name
is not good.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-07 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-07 19:46 bug#33309: Add flatten-list? Alex Branham
2018-11-07 20:36 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-11-07 21:19 ` Alex Branham
2018-12-10 8:44 ` Michael Albinus
2018-12-10 17:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-10 20:12 ` Alex Branham
2018-12-10 21:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-10 23:06 ` Alex Branham
2018-12-11 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-10 22:42 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-12-10 23:17 ` Alex Branham
2018-12-10 23:26 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-12-10 23:34 ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-11 8:21 ` Michael Albinus
2018-12-11 8:34 ` martin rudalics
2018-12-11 17:36 ` bug#33309: [PATCH] flatten-list Alex Branham
2018-12-11 20:11 ` Michael Albinus
2018-12-11 20:16 ` Alex Branham
2018-12-17 11:33 ` Michael Albinus
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