From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21782: 25.0.50; New functions nfront/front Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: muc.de e.V. 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X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 19:01:33 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:108247 Archived-At: Hello, Richard. Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > ISTR there are traditional names for those functions. > I don't remember what they were, but if we are going to add them, > we should use their traditional names. How about `firstn': "firstn n list Returns a list of length _n_, whose elements are the first _n_ elements of _list_. if _list_ is fewer than _n_ elements long, the remaining elements of the list are ni." [ Lisp Machine Manual, Sixth Edition, System Version 99, June 1984, by Richard Stallman, Daniel Weinreb and David Moon ] > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) > Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) > Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).