From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with mapconcat
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:35:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eik0o2e6.fsf@escher.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4B8F630E.2040301@easy-emacs.de
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:36:46 +0100 Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:
> Thamer Mahmoud wrote:
>> Thamer Mahmoud <thamer.mahmoud@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Another alternative:
>>>
>>> (mapconcat 'string (string-to-list "abc") "/")
>>>
>>> => "a/b/c"
>>
>> After sending the above, I realized that this would work too:
>>
>> (mapconcat 'string "abc" "/")
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> That seems to work either, whats strange for me:
>
> (mapconcat 'list "abc" "/")"a/b/c"
Maybe this helps clarify why that works:
(let (r)
(dolist (e (string-to-list "abc") r)
(setq r (concat r (if (null r) "" "/") (list e)))))
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 12:49 problem with mapconcat Christian Wittern
2010-03-03 13:50 ` Dan Davison
2010-03-03 13:55 ` Christian Wittern
2010-03-03 13:57 ` Teemu Likonen
2010-03-03 15:23 ` Thamer Mahmoud
2010-03-03 15:41 ` Thamer Mahmoud
2010-03-04 1:39 ` Christian Wittern
2010-03-04 7:36 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-03-04 9:35 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2010-03-04 15:07 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-03-04 6:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
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