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From: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Checking if all values of a list are true
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:37:20 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d973602-87f8-4d16-a031-a99bab267a36@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d312fa7a-b889-4369-b29a-7142fb420503@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com

On 11 Juli, 13:33, Nordlöw <per.nord...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 Juli, 13:23, Nordlöw <per.nord...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How do I check if all values of a list are true?
>
> > This is my attempt:
> > (reduce 'and '(t t))
>
> > but I get the error: and (invalid-function and)
>
> > (functionp 'and)
>
> > gives true so why on earth doesn't this work?
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Nordlöw
>
> Is there an alternative pure emacs-lisp way (non common-lisp (cl)) of
> doing this?
>
> /Nordlöw

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.

/Nordlöw


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 11:37 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 [this message]
2008-07-11 11:51     ` Florian Beck
2008-07-11 11:56     ` Joost Kremers
2008-07-11 16:38 ` David Kastrup

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