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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Appending lists
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 02:29:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tulsdpqm.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YM/PeKNjQ2Hpv/rj@protected.localdomain

Jean Louis wrote:

> Not like that, you have to use `copy-sequence' on the last
> element within `append'
>
> (progn
>   (setq list-head '(1))
>   (setq list-tail '(2 3 4))
>   (setq whole-list (append list-head (copy-sequence list-tail)))
>   (setcdr list-tail '(3.5 4))
>   whole-list
> ) ; (1 2 3 4)

Clearly doesn't work:

(progn
   (setq list-head '(1))
   (setq list-tail '(2 3 4))
   (setq whole-list (append list-head
                            `(,(car list-tail))
                            (setcdr (copy-sequence list-tail) '(3.5 4))))
   whole-list
 ) ; (1 2 3.5 4)

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-21  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-17  3:18 Appending lists Drew Adams
2021-06-17  7:48 ` tomas
2021-06-18 23:38   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-18 23:50   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-19  6:57     ` tomas
2021-06-19 21:31       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-19 22:07         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-20 19:50           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 19:58             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 20:10               ` Jean Louis
2021-06-20 20:27                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 19:59             ` Jean Louis
2021-06-20 20:22               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 20:42               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 20:49                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 21:49                   ` Jean Louis
2021-06-20 22:54                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 23:30                       ` Jean Louis
2021-06-21  0:29                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-06-20 21:46                 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-20 22:09             ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 23:04               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 23:10                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-06-16 14:16 Drew Adams
2021-06-16 17:03 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 18:00   ` Drew Adams
2021-06-14 16:36 Pierpaolo Bernardi
2021-06-14 16:40 ` henri-biard
2021-06-14 18:21   ` Alexandr Vityazev
2021-06-15  0:46     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-15  8:27       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-15  9:18         ` tomas
2021-06-16  1:11           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16  7:28             ` tomas
2021-06-16 16:42               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 16:55                 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-16 17:06                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 17:54                     ` Drew Adams
2021-06-16 23:49                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-17  7:54                         ` tomas
2021-06-18 23:55                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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