RE: Why aren't `find`, `find-if`, `remove-if` part of Emacs Lisp?

[Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Petton 
> Subject: Re: Why aren't `find`, `find-if`, `remove-if` part of Emacs
> Lisp?
> 
> Doug Lewan writes:
> 
> > While I won't make assertions about how Emacs Lisp as a language
> should be, I am comfortable saying that I write code like the following
> a lot:
> >
> >     (delete nil (mapcar ...))
> 
> Do you mean that you are ok with using the above or that you'd like to
> have remove-if built into the language?
> 

I only wanted to say that (*-if) would be very natural.

No language is perfect, if only because size versus completeness will never have a balance that makes everyone happy. (Think: assembler on one end and ADA on the other (or, gasp! Wolfram).) This is a compromise every programmer lives with. Emacs Lisp has a pretty good library, but is big enough that I still find new things just stumbling through the *Info*.

,Douglas
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