From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging nth, aref, and elt. Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:51:35 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87oast997c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414662735 9560 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2014 09:52:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:52:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 10:52:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjmOn-0005CL-ET for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:52:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjmOn-00089X-04 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 05:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36363) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjmOe-00089F-VX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 05:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjmOZ-000428-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 05:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36538) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjmOZ-000422-He for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 05:51:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjmOQ-0004wp-HN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:51:46 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f41466.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.20.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:51:46 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f41466.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:51:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f41466.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:znqzQ/xw4EkkdYDGpEu9y11fOeA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176061 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> But yes, Elisp's "core" functions suffer from lots of irregularities, >>> and getting rid of them would be an improvement. E.g.: [...] >>> - Merge nth, aref, and elt. >> I wouldn't mind giving this a try. >> I take it this should be a C function? > > Yes, of course. > Arguably `elt' is already the answer. Reminds me of -- David Kastrup