From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: seq-some-p and nil
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:44:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvwym01x.fsf@petton.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvbbml0lc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> If the function is not supposed to return non-nil if an element is
>>> matched but the element itself, then would it be ok? OTOH there would be
>>> again no way to differentiate between no element found and nil being
>>> found in the sequence.
>
> Returning what FUN returned seems like a better choice.
>
> If you need the element matched, then you can simply arrange for FUN
> to return the element.
There is a misunderstanding here I think.
The way I see it, they are two different functions: the (new) seq-some,
and this other function that is now missing in seq, with the new
implementation of `seq-some'.
This new function would be used to find an element in a seq using a
predicate. CL has `find-if,' Scheme has `find', Clojure has `some',
Smalltalk has `detect:', etc.
Also, both the CL and scheme versions have the nil value ambiguity, but
since these functions are not supposed to return the logical truth on a
match, it is in my opinion fine.
I think I could name this function `seq-find'.
Cheers,
Nico
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-07 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-03 15:50 seq-some-p and nil Simen Heggestøyl
2015-09-03 16:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-03 17:19 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 17:35 ` John Mastro
2015-09-03 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-03 19:36 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-03 19:45 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-06 1:17 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-09-06 20:48 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-06 21:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-07 6:11 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-07 8:06 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-07 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-07 15:23 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-09-07 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-07 20:44 ` Nicolas Petton [this message]
2015-09-07 22:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-08 7:09 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-08 13:07 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-08 17:01 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-08 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-08 19:02 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 19:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-09 7:56 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-09 13:26 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-09 17:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 17:53 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-09 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 20:46 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-09 21:44 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-08 19:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-08 18:59 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 19:06 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-08 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 7:57 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 13:21 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-08 13:37 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-09-08 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 2:19 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-09-09 4:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-09 4:57 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-09-07 20:45 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-03 19:40 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-10 17:46 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2015-09-10 22:12 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-22 17:17 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2015-09-23 8:38 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-23 8:44 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-23 8:48 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2015-09-23 10:57 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-28 19:17 ` Nicolas Petton
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