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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>,
	"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Testing whether a list contains at least one non-nil element
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:39:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CO6PR10MB5473A5E7FD6BF5D077B7C68DF3309@CO6PR10MB5473.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rl3re70.fsf@dataswamp.org>

> > (cl-member-if-not #'null toto)
> 
> Close
>   (cl-member-if-not #'null '(nil nil)) ; nil
>   (cl-member-if-not #'null '(nil 2))   ; (2)
> 
> But
>   (cl-position-if-not #'null '(nil nil)) ; nil
>   (cl-position-if-not #'null '(nil 2))   ; 1

The request was for a test of whether the input
list contains any non-nil elements.  Yes, both
`cl-member-if-not' and `cl-position-if-not' can
do that.  Or `cl-member-if' and `cl-position-if',
passing #'identity.

There are lots of ways to do it.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-26 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-25 10:16 Testing whether a list contains at least one non-nil element Heime
2022-10-25 10:46 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-25 10:47 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-25 10:50 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-25 12:12   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-26 18:56     ` Jean Louis
2022-10-27  3:54       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-27  4:53         ` Jean Louis
2022-10-27  5:30           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-27 15:54           ` Drew Adams
2022-10-27 17:47             ` Elisp and CL (was: Re: [External] : Re: Testing whether a list contains at least one non-nil element) Emanuel Berg
2022-10-27 20:38             ` [External] : Re: Testing whether a list contains at least one non-nil element Jean Louis
2022-10-28  0:22               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-28  4:48               ` tomas
2022-10-28  5:19                 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-28  6:20                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-28 13:09                   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-29  6:10                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-29 15:25                       ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-30 12:49                         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-29  6:38                     ` tomas
2022-10-30 12:48                     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-29  9:20                   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-29  9:19                 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-27  4:01       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-25 12:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-25 12:15   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-25 15:59   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-25 17:44     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-26 15:39       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-10-26 17:43         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-25 17:25 ` Joost Kremers
2022-10-25 17:51   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-25 19:44   ` Heime
2022-10-25 20:08     ` Joost Kremers
2022-10-25 20:15     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-25 20:19       ` Joost Kremers
2022-10-26  3:00         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-10-28  5:07 Drew Adams

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