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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Matt Price'" <matt.price@utoronto.ca>,
	"'Matthew Flaschen'" <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>
Cc: 'emacs' <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: adding a string to every element in a list
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:16:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000501c949a9$bd63ba20$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227031392.31451.2499.camel@localhost>

> i don't know why this didn't occur to me -- i was hung up on modifying
> the original list, i guess, not thinking i could just create 
> a new one.

All of the mapping functions are good to know, as is `dolist'.

In general, don't even think about modifying list structure.
When you really need to do that, you will know it. ;-)

See the discussion here about list modification, in thread "Adding
Lists/Sequences" (2008-09):
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2008-09/msg00809.html





  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-17  5:51 adding a string to every element in a list Matt Price
2008-11-17  6:06 ` Matthew Flaschen
2008-11-18 18:03   ` Matt Price
2008-11-18 18:16     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-11-17  6:54 ` Drew Adams

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