From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu
Subject: Re: request for a new function, say, `sequence'
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:57:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303250057.h2P0vBj6016367@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200303250050.JAA06631@etlken.m17n.org
> > Oops, I should have written "we'll use". Kawabata-san is
> > now working on improving Indian language support (including
> > tamil and malayalam), and in the comming code, the same
> > functionality is required in many other files.
>
> > And, even if it is used just in devan-util.el, it's too
> > generic to fit in there.
>
> Another possible usage of `sequence' is this.
>
> Currently, in lisp/international/characters.el, we have this
> kind of code repeatedly.
>
> (setq c X)
> (while (<= c Y)
> ..operate-on-C
> (setq c (1+ c)))
>
> We can change it to this:
>
> (dolist (c (sequence #X #Y 'list))
> ..operate-on-C)
I agree that such code is pretty common, but I'd rather extend dotimes
to allow something like (dotimes (c (cons X Y)) BODY).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-25 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-23 3:02 request for a new function, say, `sequence' Kenichi Handa
2003-03-24 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-25 0:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 0:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-03-25 1:25 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 1:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-25 1:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-25 1:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 2:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-25 1:57 ` Satyaki Das
2003-03-25 2:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 2:41 ` Satyaki Das
2003-03-25 4:46 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 5:05 ` Satyaki Das
2003-03-25 5:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 20:10 ` Satyaki Das
2003-03-26 0:18 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-26 1:44 ` Satyaki Das
2003-03-26 2:38 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-26 7:31 ` Edward O'Connor
2003-03-26 8:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-03-26 12:18 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-27 3:30 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-03 2:54 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-03 3:44 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-03 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-03 10:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-04-04 2:11 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2003-04-04 22:23 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-05 2:10 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2003-04-06 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-08 8:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-03 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-25 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-25 23:11 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-26 0:11 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-26 0:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-26 1:34 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-26 0:54 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-26 1:29 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-26 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 0:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-27 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 15:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-27 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 17:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-27 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-26 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
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