From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: member returns list Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:40:03 +0200 Message-ID: <877fo4bw98.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <55E5C99B.3020608@yandex.ru> <87lhcpu2wb.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> <874mjchisl.fsf@web.de> <87pp20jxy7.fsf@debian.uxu> <87twrcxyfk.fsf@mbork.pl> <87y4gnt2r5.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441474535 10965 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2015 17:35:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 17:35:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 05 19:35:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZYHN5-00049R-QC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:35:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHN6-0001eq-Ac for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:35:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHMv-0001da-EN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHMq-000187-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHMq-000179-9K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHMm-0003pJ-DS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:35:04 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:35:04 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:35:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aDUSusqvW5yEbN8HFy8f+NnPzZ0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107034 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > FYI, all those names were inherited from Maclisp. > The q at the end of the names reflects that they use > eq as the comparison function. Ha ha, cool! > Conversely, the functions that use equal have long > names like delete, member, remove. The consistency > is that the fully-spelled-out list functions use the > fully-spelled-out comparison. What?! :O Or did you make that up just now? If not, do you have more such Lisp secrets to share? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573