From: August <fusionfive@comhem.se>
Subject: Re: shorter form of frequently-seen lisp idiom?
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:31:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108855903.5324.48.camel@c83-250-204-250.bredband.comhem.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5650os849.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
On lör, 2005-02-19 at 19:43 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:
>
> > Is there a shorter way to concatenate a list of strings
> > than this?
> >
> > (eval (append (list 'concat) list-of-strings))
> >
> > Or more generally,
> >
> > (eval (append (list 'function-that-acts-on-foos) list-of-foos))
>
> (apply #'concat list-of-strings)
>
>
What's the purpose of the hash sign? `(apply 'concat list-of-strings)'
works too.
--
August
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2005-02-19 18:43 ` shorter form of frequently-seen lisp idiom? David Kastrup
2005-02-19 23:31 ` August [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.714.1108857188.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-02-19 23:55 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-21 0:07 ` Denis Bueno
2005-02-21 0:17 ` Denis Bueno
[not found] ` <mailman.835.1108945397.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-02-21 0:28 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-22 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-22 18:29 ` rgb
2005-02-22 18:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-02-23 16:29 ` rgb
2005-02-23 18:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-02-22 21:20 ` Oliver Scholz
2005-02-22 22:16 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1159.1109113137.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-02-23 18:48 ` rgb
2005-02-19 18:33 Joe Corneli
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