From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: return first element in list with certain property Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:52:27 +0100 Message-ID: <86po8cy8ok.fsf@zoho.com> References: <8660a60zjn.fsf@zoho.com> <86k1ylzxn8.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511211205 26902 195.159.176.226 (20 Nov 2017 20:53:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:53:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 20 21:53:18 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGt45-00068q-C5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:53:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59691 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGt4B-0002t2-3z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:53:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49103) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGt3i-0002rA-7r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:52:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGt3d-0001yX-EI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:52:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55302 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGt3d-0001xm-6o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:52:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGt3T-00041g-0w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:52:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:o6TvcLSKllRUgndc3RF0WasDeuw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115011 Archived-At: John Mastro wrote: > Or, if seq.el is more your style: > > (seq-find (lambda (e) (> e 1)) '(1 1 3 1 4 2)) ;=> 3 (require 'seq) (seq-find (lambda (e) (> e 1)) '(1 1 3 1 4 2)) ; 3 (require 'cl-lib) (cl-find-if (lambda (e) (> e 1)) '(1 1 3 1 4 2)) ; 3 The syntax seems pretty identical to me so perhaps you can tell me more about the seq package? I have never required `seq' before, CL tho 21 times. So I'll stick to even more CL unless you can show the court some chocking new evidence... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573