From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu
Subject: Re: request for a new function, say, `sequence'
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:40:07 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303250540.OAA07032@etlken.m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4946.1048568708@theforce.Stanford.EDU> (satyakid@stanford.edu)
In article <4946.1048568708@theforce.Stanford.EDU>, "Satyaki Das" <satyakid@stanford.edu> writes:
>> (defun dev-charseq (from &optional to)
>> (if (null to) (setq to from))
>> (mapcar (function (lambda (x) (indian-glyph-char x 'devanagari)))
>> (devanagari-range from to)))
> I would have written it as follows:
> (defun dev-charseq (lower &optional upper)
> (if (null upper) (setq upper lower))
> (loop for x from lower to upper
> collect (indian-glyph-char x 'devanagiri)))
> I changed "from" to "lower" and "to" to "upper" since the loop
> looks sort of funny otherwise.
It's not the point. How to use a list returned by `range'
(or `sequence') and how to make such a list is a different
thing.
Of course, we can implement the functionality of `range' by
using loop, while, dotimes, etc. But, it doesn't mean that
we don't need a simpler/convenient function `range'.
> I did a grep through the sources and there are 118 files that
> already contain the line,
> (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
How many of them are preloaded?
---
Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-25 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-23 3:02 request for a new function, say, `sequence' Kenichi Handa
2003-03-24 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-25 0:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 0:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-25 1:25 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 1:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-25 1:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-25 1:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 2:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-25 1:57 ` Satyaki Das
2003-03-25 2:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 2:41 ` Satyaki Das
2003-03-25 4:46 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-25 5:05 ` Satyaki Das
2003-03-25 5:40 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2003-03-25 20:10 ` Satyaki Das
2003-03-26 0:18 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-26 1:44 ` Satyaki Das
2003-03-26 2:38 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-26 7:31 ` Edward O'Connor
2003-03-26 8:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-03-26 12:18 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-27 3:30 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-03 2:54 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-03 3:44 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-03 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-03 10:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-04-04 2:11 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2003-04-04 22:23 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-05 2:10 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2003-04-06 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-08 8:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-03 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-25 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-25 23:11 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-26 0:11 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-26 0:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-26 1:34 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-26 0:54 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-26 1:29 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-26 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 0:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-27 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 15:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-27 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 17:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-27 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-26 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
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