From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add seq-random-elt
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 08:42:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmyc8shl.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvshrpie92.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org
On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:30:02 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> Hmm... do we really need that? What's the benefit?
>> I think it's convenient. Accessing random elements of sequences is not
>> uncommon.
SM> (seq-elt L (random (seq-length L)))
SM> it pretty convenient to write and pretty clear as well, so the benefit
SM> seems slim.
I don't like to name variables twice. I've sometimes forgotten to change
the second place when I copy and paste, creating very annoying bugs.
I also think this would be helpful to beginners who may not intuit the
right approach so easily.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-22 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-21 6:05 Add seq-random-elt Damien Cassou
2016-10-21 8:08 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-10-21 9:06 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-10-21 18:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-21 20:52 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-10-21 21:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-22 8:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-10-22 12:42 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2016-10-22 14:53 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-22 14:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-23 17:06 ` Damien Cassou
2016-10-24 11:03 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-10-24 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-24 16:24 ` Davis Herring
2016-10-24 16:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-25 6:52 ` Damien Cassou
2016-10-25 10:33 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-10-25 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-25 19:32 ` Nicolas Petton
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