Re: Using list with append

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Heime wrote:

> (defun pmchart selectr nc)

Function names: use-normal-language

Argument names: short forms that are obvious encouraged, e.g.
cmd, len, lang, beg, end, src, dst, and so on, otherwise use
normal language there as well

> "TODO."

Remove, it's better not to have a docstring than to have one
that doesn't document anything, (checkdoc-current-buffer t)
will also tell you that one is formally incorrect.

> (pmchart '("Peter" "Paul") [3 2] 5)
>
> gives the list
>
> '(("Peter" ("xxxxx" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" "")) 
>   ("Paul" ("xxxxx" "xxxxx" "" "")))

If the list of X-Strings are associated with the names, it is
better to have a function that does one such item, so that
would be called like this, probably

  (x-name-item "Peter" 3 5)

then to do the whole table for each line there would be one
such call.

So the semantics of what you are doing is implemented
in/enforced by the code that actually does the work, as well,
if you will ...

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