Re: Refer to List of Arguments in Emacs Lisp Function

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>]

On 2014-11-13, at 09:02, Alexander Shukaev wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I can't find whether there is a possibility to refer to the whole list of
> arguments of a function in Emacs Lisp. For example:
>
> (defun move (x y z)
>   (apply do-move (args))
>
> What I mean by (args) primitive here is a list (x y z). This use case
> illustrates usefulness of such a primitive, i.e. forwarding of arguments to
> another internal call without a need to rewrite them by hand. (length
> (args)) might be useful in some cases too. Is there anything like that in
> Emacs Lisp already?

(defun move (&rest args)
  (apply #'do-move args))

Note that (apply do-move (args)) would not work: first, you have to
quote do-move, second, (args) would try to call a function `args'.

Hth,

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