From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Wanted: Adding list-elements into an existing list Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <874p3cvfwy.fsf@zeekat.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224164590 14350 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2008 13:43:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:43:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 15:44:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KqT8x-0006IA-AW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:43:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqT7s-0000td-E5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:42:52 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!u46g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.227.15.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1224164191 8236 127.0.0.1 (16 Oct 2008 13:36:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:36:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u46g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.227.15.253; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 ip-w.foi.se:8080 (IronPort-WSA/5.6.0-618) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163501 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58842 Archived-At: On 16 Okt, 15:16, Joost Diepenmaat wrote: > Nordl=F6w writes: > > Is there a variant of the function add-to-list(a b) where b can be a > > list aswell? > > > (add-list-elements-to-list '(a b c) '(c d e)) should evaluate '(a b c > > d e) > > > or do I have to implement it myself using an iteration-construct? > > That's what (append) does: > > =A0 append is a built-in function in `C source code'. > > =A0 (append &rest SEQUENCES) > > =A0 Concatenate all the arguments and make the result a list. =A0The resu= lt > =A0 is a list whose elements are the elements of all the arguments. =A0Ea= ch > =A0 argument may be a list, vector or string. =A0The last argument is not > =A0 copied, just used as the tail of the new list. > > -- > Joost Diepenmaat | blog:http://joost.zeekat.nl/| work:http://zeekat.nl/ (append) does not modify its first argument which is what I want. I can solve it through (setq x (append x y)) but before I create this new function for this I just wanted to make sure that no such function already exists.... /Nordl=F6w