From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Checking whether a list contains a particular element Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:22:05 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85fyh0wpqa.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153129318 30816 80.91.229.2 (17 Jul 2006 09:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 17 11:41:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2PbR-0003kn-Kz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:41:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2PbQ-0003ai-Ux for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:41:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.cw.net!cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help 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/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Zqj6ToL06ztxHLHbhxLDaqNCpIU= Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jul 2006 11:22:29 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 5a99870f.newsread4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=3[VlJPN0; MAeoBec=`Q1lF:ejgIfPPldDjW\KbG]kaMHliQbn6H@_EIf:; ]9O5f^kE1_LiI6ENVaM3>5MOK`O=RKj4kP3U_eY2L Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140385 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36009 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 16.07.2006 um 21:22 schrieb Barry Margolin: > >> The built-in 'add-to-list' function already performs this check > > Ahh! From reading the function's name it's hard to guess that it does > such a good work. And since the name is so clear I never would have > checked the description ... But it would be pointless if it did the same thing as `push'. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum