From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I'd like to marry while and mapcar...
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:50:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fvv9mj6.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83386jduwl.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2015-02-06, at 14:36, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
>> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:56:48 +0100
>>
>> What I'd need is kind of a marriage of while and mapcar: I'd like to run
>> some function until it returns nil and make a list of all results it
>> gives back until then.
>
> Can't you use 'throw' from within the function called by mapcar?
I'm not sure whether I understood you... How can `throw' help me with
this? And, `mapcar' already wants a list; I want yet to construct it...
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-06 12:56 I'd like to marry while and mapcar Marcin Borkowski
2015-02-06 13:18 ` Rasmus
2015-02-06 13:53 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-02-06 14:14 ` Rasmus
2015-02-06 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-06 13:50 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-02-06 13:44 ` Doug Lewan
[not found] ` <mailman.19396.1423229779.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-06 16:25 ` Barry Margolin
2015-02-06 16:52 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-02-06 22:49 ` Drew Adams
2015-02-07 21:09 ` Robert Thorpe
2015-02-07 23:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.19494.1423352465.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-08 0:28 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] <mailman.19392.1423227427.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-06 14:13 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-02-06 14:54 ` Joost Kremers
2015-02-06 17:47 ` Joost Kremers
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