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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replace element in list
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 09:29:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmufmhloq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6a632b18-bbd6-7096-229d-6c890b6bdb6f@easy-emacs.de

> is there a recommended way to replace element x at index i of somelist 
> y by newelement?

What Thomas is hinting at with his "copy-list" and "functional sector"
is that if you need to do that, there's a problem upstream.
E.g. could you use a struct instead of a list?


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-02 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-02  9:44 Replace element in list Andreas Röhler
2019-09-02 10:37 ` tomas
2019-09-02 10:41   ` tomas
2019-09-02 10:46     ` tomas
2019-09-02 11:03       ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-02 11:05         ` tomas
2019-09-02 13:38           ` Andreas Röhler
2019-09-02 13:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-09-02 13:43   ` tomas
2019-09-02 14:00     ` Andreas Röhler
2019-09-02 14:57       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-02 20:29         ` Andreas Röhler
2019-09-02 21:32           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-03  5:37             ` Andreas Röhler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-11-22  4:42 replace " edgar
2018-11-22  5:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-11-22  5:39   ` Drew Adams
2018-11-22  6:04     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-11-22 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] ` <mailman.4442.1542892802.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-11-23 12:05   ` Robert Munyer
2018-11-24  3:01 ` edgar
2018-11-24  5:27   ` Drew Adams
2018-11-24  7:22     ` edgar

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