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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Checking if all values of a list are true
Date: 11 Jul 2008 11:56:16 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrng7eift.2vq.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2d973602-87f8-4d16-a031-a99bab267a36@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com

Nordlöw wrote:
> It would be even better if Emacs already had a function typically
> named any-p(arg-list) that returned t if all values in arg-list are
> non-nil.

(defmacro all-true (lst)
  `(and ,@lst)

AND is not a function (or a macro) but a special form. in my emacs (GNU
Emacs 23.0.60.1), (functionp and) returns nil, not t. which is presumably
why functions such as reduce, funcall, mapcar etc. do not accept it as an
argument.


-- 
Joost Kremers                                      joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-11 11:23 Checking if all values of a list are true Nordlöw
2008-07-11 11:33 ` Nordlöw
2008-07-11 11:37   ` Nordlöw
2008-07-11 11:51     ` Florian Beck
2008-07-11 11:56     ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2008-07-11 16:38 ` David Kastrup

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