From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>
To: Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>, emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: adding a string to every element in a list
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:06:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <492109F3.6040002@gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226901075.25203.2782.camel@localhost>
Matt Price wrote:
> i have no doubt this is trivial in lisp, but my documentation searches always take
> me back to cons, car, and cdr, which don't seem like the easiest tools
> for this task, though maybe it's just that i don't really understan
> recursion...
Just use mapcar, and it will handle the recursion:
(setq list (list "dog" "cat" "fish"));
(mapcar (lambda (arg) (concat arg "food")) list)
Matt Flaschen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-17 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-17 5:51 adding a string to every element in a list Matt Price
2008-11-17 6:06 ` Matthew Flaschen [this message]
2008-11-18 18:03 ` Matt Price
2008-11-18 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 6:54 ` Drew Adams
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