From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: drain <aeuster@gmail.com>
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: setcdr question
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:06:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obal1gb1.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372718770419-290941.post@n5.nabble.com> (drain's message of "Mon, 1 Jul 2013 15:46:10 -0700 (PDT)")
drain <aeuster@gmail.com> writes:
> (setq list '(Trevor Jason John Alex Max))
> (setcdr (nthcdr (1- 4) list) 'Christina)
As your question was already answered, I allow me to digress slightly
in suggesting that you may like setf for such operations:
(let ((list '(Trevor Jason John Alex Max)))
(setf (nth (1- 4) list) 'Christina)
list)
=> (Trevor Jason John Christina Max)
--
Nico.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-02 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-01 22:46 setcdr question drain
2013-07-02 2:12 ` Pierre Lorenzon
2013-07-02 9:06 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2013-07-02 9:17 ` Teemu Likonen
2013-07-02 22:17 ` drain
2013-07-02 22:26 ` drain
2013-07-03 9:13 ` Pierre Lorenzon
[not found] ` <mailman.90.1372804018.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-03 13:04 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-04 19:19 ` drain
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