From: bolega <gnuist006@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: identity function with an echo side effect
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:56:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <324e9d4c-b083-42a3-aa88-4e7b918042e3@h32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
After searching google groups and emacs apropos extensively, I could
not find a function, perhaps I am missing one that can return
identically return its argument and has a small side effect of echoing
the argument in some place such as for example
the mini buffer or the point at which C-x C-e is typed.
For example, calling this function "echo" , usage would look like
this :
(cdr ( echo (cdr (echo (cdr (echo '(a b c d)))))))
echo:
'(a b c d) or (a b c d) (I am not sure which would be appropriate)
(b c d)
(c d)
result:
(d)
Is there a need for quotes to prevent evaluation of alphabets at any
phase ?
Thanks.
next reply other threads:[~2010-08-10 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-10 20:56 bolega [this message]
2010-08-10 23:03 ` identity function with an echo side effect Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-11 5:01 ` bolega
2010-08-11 14:19 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-11 17:42 ` bolega
2010-08-11 20:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-12 2:35 ` TheFlyingDutchman
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