From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Computing value from list lengths Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 21:50:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87mtjosthw.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <874k5xt827.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19262"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:3UEz4+uELJMAgEr7SEi+cUzU7D0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 21 22:22:51 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 1nB1Mw-0004hw-1x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:22:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53564 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB1Mv-00056K-3y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:22:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB0sL-000337-4E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56806) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB0sF-00079l-L4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:51:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nB0s6-00048N-5u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 21:50:58 +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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135487 Archived-At: fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: >>> Have started using (length dark-theme-colours), and >>> changing "(dotimes (i 8)" to "(dotimes (i n)". How does >>> one set the value to n, for o defcustom such as maxdepth? >> >> Please get and read this book, "THE ABC OF PROGRAMMING", by >> A F Ivanovich, Moskow 1962, before you proceed to macros >> and the like ... > > The thing I found has been "The ABC of Communism" ! Yeah, by Nikolai Bukharin. Shot in 1938. They were taking programming too too seriously. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal