From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: apply or Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:31:17 +0200 Organization: sometimes Message-ID: <7eis36268q.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112349515 25585 80.91.229.2 (1 Apr 2005 09:58:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 11:58:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DHIur-0006xf-U7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:58:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DHJBj-0000P4-Uc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:15:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.ccs.neu.edu!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ada2.unipv.it Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1112347877 5300 193.204.44.145 (1 Apr 2005 09:31:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:31:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wLuOFdWO9hZ4NLTeLvUkWDLfTdQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129778 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25333 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25333 "" writes: > Whilst I can work around this difficulty using "member" or using > "eval" and "cons", I wonder if there is a way of doing what I > originally intended and directly feeding logical connectives to > "apply" (or, for that matter, other functions which take a > function as an argument). to map `and', look for `every'. to map `or', look for `some'. these are in (or are under) cl.el, iirc. for the latter (parenthesized) part of your question, could you give an example of such a function-taking-a-function? maybe it is not just me that is confused... thi