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: Appending to a list Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:25:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87wnxkmeig.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <877dpljtwg.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87sg89v1f7.fsf@telefonica.net> <87mtyhxovn.fsf@zoho.eu> <871rftxlwl.fsf@zoho.eu> <87czzdyqra.fsf@web.de> <87r1ns5mlf.fsf@web.de> 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="11335"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:WVqcvA8lNFZa2tM16bGKoWkMtvw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 14 19:31:08 2020 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 1koscl-0002sV-Iw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:31:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40124 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kosck-0004ya-LL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59558) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kosbl-0004xB-Uz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:30:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:33082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kosbj-0006Bl-Gs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:30:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kosbh-0001bZ-V7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:30:01 +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-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:126379 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Seems there is/was a misunderstanding: that you wanted to > append an one-element list, which is apparently not the case. > In the general case, `append' is of course not less efficient > than pushing from one list to another element by element. I don't understand the issue, even less than you because I don't even understand it enough to misunderstand it, _but_ I think the focus should be how to just solve it using standard and common methods, they will be efficient enough :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal