From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Refer to List of Arguments in Emacs Lisp Function
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:04:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a93qkrzt.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.13526.1415865742.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:02:14 +0100 Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com> wrote:
AS> I can't find whether there is a possibility to refer to the whole list of
AS> arguments of a function in Emacs Lisp. For example:
AS> (defun move (x y z)
AS> (apply do-move (args))
AS> What I mean by (args) primitive here is a list (x y z). This use case
AS> illustrates usefulness of such a primitive, i.e. forwarding of arguments to
AS> another internal call without a need to rewrite them by hand.
I think `apply-partially' and function aliasing are more typical
solution for this use case in today's Emacs. Macros also help, depending
on the situation. Not to say your need is not valid, but it's definitely
not common.
AS> (length (args)) might be useful in some cases too. Is there anything
AS> like that in Emacs Lisp already?
Sorry... I'm not aware of such a thing.
Ted
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2014-11-13 8:27 ` Refer to List of Arguments in Emacs Lisp Function Joost Kremers
2014-11-13 8:35 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-13 16:58 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-11-14 13:35 ` Nicolas Richard
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2014-11-13 19:20 ` Barry Margolin
2014-11-14 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-14 3:56 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-13 16:02 ` Barry Margolin
2014-11-17 11:04 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-11-13 8:02 Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-13 16:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.13556.1415895434.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-13 19:23 ` Barry Margolin
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