From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Nicolas Petton" <nicolas@petton.fr>,
"Simen Heggestøyl" <simenheg@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: seq-some-p and nil
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 18:19:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdUY-+6nfH8JqonYKb7PJQQEJOMafRayjgcJtOzsps0uC9yYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwpw7lamn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-03 17:42 GMT+01:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> Two solutions come to my mind: 1) Make `seq-some-p' a pure t/nil
>> predicate, or 2) Make it behave like `some' in Common Lisp, which is
>> to return the first non-nil value which is returned by an invocation
>> of the predicate. So in CL:
>
> I think that functions named "<foo>-p" should return values which are
> fundamentally booleans
Agreed, and that's not the only case.
Both `seq-some-p' and `seq-contains-p' are named as predicates but do
not behave as predicates.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-03 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-03 15:50 seq-some-p and nil Simen Heggestøyl
2015-09-03 16:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-03 17:19 ` Artur Malabarba [this message]
2015-09-03 17:35 ` John Mastro
2015-09-03 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-03 19:36 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-03 19:45 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-06 1:17 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-09-06 20:48 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-06 21:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-07 6:11 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-07 8:06 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-07 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-07 15:23 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-09-07 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-07 20:44 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-07 22:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-08 7:09 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-08 13:07 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-08 17:01 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-08 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-08 19:02 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 19:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-09 7:56 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-09 13:26 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-09 17:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 17:53 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-09 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 20:46 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-09 21:44 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-08 19:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-08 18:59 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 19:06 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-08 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 7:57 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 13:21 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 13:37 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-09-08 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 2:19 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-09-09 4:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-09 4:57 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-09-07 20:45 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-03 19:40 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-10 17:46 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2015-09-10 22:12 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-22 17:17 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2015-09-23 8:38 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-23 8:44 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-23 8:48 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2015-09-23 10:57 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-28 19:17 ` Nicolas Petton
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