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From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
To: Sebastian Miele <iota@whxvd.name>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making a list of lists
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:41:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ASUWWre5zvDth_Fi6eb1wUds_H0PaE3DqaaaazemA44Vd5Q75qx5eNYshrh-bEfz6FvbDW4vlLekc-asCZvpxLC8jb5Tf0h-1MIOedRUQdo=@proton.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jzvhdkkz.fsf@whxvd.name>

------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 at 4:24 AM, Sebastian Miele <iota@whxvd.name> wrote:


> > From: uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me
> > Date: Mon, 2023-07-03 16:18 +0000
> > 
> > I want to make a list of lists. Suppose I make a list by calling this function
> > 
> > (defun linseq (&rest sequence)
> > sequence)
> > 
> > How can then I have a function that adds the list as an element to a list of lists ?
> 
> 
> The Emacs Lisp manual contains such information.
> 
> `linseq' basically is the built-in` list' function. You could do
> 
> (linseq (linseq 'a 'b 'c))
> 
> which is equivalent to:
> 
> (list (list 'a 'b 'c))
> 
> Another possibility is the "backquote construct" (also see the manual).
> For example
> 
> `(,(list 'a 'b 'c))
> 
> has the same result.

I do not follow your explanation very well.

Suppose I have mylist, with a number of lists constructed as follows

(setq mylist '())
(setq entry1 (linseq "A" "B" "C"))
(setq entry2 (linseq "D" "E" "F"))

Then how do I add entry1 and entry2, to mylist ?










  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-03 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-03 16:18 Making a list of lists uzibalqa
2023-07-03 16:24 ` Sebastian Miele
2023-07-03 16:33   ` Sebastian Miele
2023-07-03 16:40     ` Sebastian Miele
2023-07-03 16:41   ` uzibalqa [this message]
2023-07-03 16:44     ` Sebastian Miele
2023-07-03 17:51       ` uzibalqa
2023-07-03 17:56         ` Sebastian Miele
2023-07-03 19:08           ` uzibalqa
2023-07-03 19:28           ` uzibalqa

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