From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using list with append Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:26:38 +0100 Message-ID: <878rkkxi6p.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36837"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:pv8da15WA8LlB2zxLvW2aMPfSqQ= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 10 14:05:39 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ot7FT-0009LK-Jo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:05:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ot7Em-0003NW-V7; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:04:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1osmyY-00020n-5G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2022 10:26:50 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1osmyW-0006xR-Ih for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2022 10:26:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1osmyU-0003fj-LD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:26:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:04:55 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140883 Archived-At: 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 ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal