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From: wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: wilnerthomas@tutanota.com
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Returning a single alist
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:48:29 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <NAHFSyu--3-2@tutanota.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NAH9kf6--3-2@tutanota.com-NAH9oxW----2>


Aug 24, 2022, 23:23 by help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org:

> The function `translate' ends up returning a list of alists.  What can I do to return just a single alist? 
>
> (defconst assoc-table-1  '( ("gigantic" . "jgN") ("graphology" . "Gol")  ("phrenology" . "fnol") ))
>
>
> (defconst assoc-table-2  '( ("psychology" . "skol")  ("physiology" . "fsol") ("minerology" . "Mnol") ))
>
>
> (defun translate ()  
>
> "TODO"  
>
> (let* ( (name "assoc-table-")      (list '())      (counter 1) )    
>
> (while (boundp (intern (concat name (number-to-string counter))))      
>
>      (setq list         (append list            
>
>           (symbol-value (intern (concat name (number-to-string counter))))))            
>
>      (setq counter (1+ counter)))    
>
> list))
>




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-24 23:48 UTC|newest]

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2022-08-24 23:23 Returning a single alist wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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