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: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:08:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303271708.h2RH8Yo3028832@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200303271703.LAA27696@eel.dms.auburn.edu
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> > How about
> >
> > (dotimes (VAR [START END] RESULT) BODY...)
> >
> > I do not completely understand this.
>
> [...] is Elisp notation for vectors. I see that it is ambiguous
> because [...] is also used in such contexts to denote optional
> arguments.
>
> So, unless START and END are constants, a typical usage would be:
>
> (dotimes (var (vector start end) result) body...)
>
> (if I now understand correctly).
No. Example usage would be:
(dotimes (x [(1+ prev) (+ prev 13)])
(blabla x))
-- Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-27 17:08 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
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 [this message]
2003-03-26 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
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