From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: member returns list Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 20:09:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87r3mcagbe.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <55E5C99B.3020608@yandex.ru> <87lhcpu2wb.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> <874mjchisl.fsf@web.de> <87pp20jxy7.fsf@debian.uxu> <87twrcxyfk.fsf@mbork.pl> <87y4gnt2r5.fsf@debian.uxu> <87twran0dw.fsf@mbork.pl> <87d1xwbwh9.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441476119 1500 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2015 18:01:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 18:01:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 05 20:01:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHmd-0003yX-W2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 20:01:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHme-0003aG-Jq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 14:01:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34281) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHmS-0003Zh-Oz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 14:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHmP-0003pK-DP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 14:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHmP-0003pC-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 14:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYHmM-0003ic-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 20:01:30 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 20:01:30 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 20:01:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nVpzMJUa4qQhFIqOirI/gtg5w3M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107036 Archived-At: Random832 writes: > Why not simply eliminate both and have something > like > > (member-test #'eq object list) Because that is not more simple but on the contrary more complicated, and it would imply the same data (#'eq) appearing repeatedly in code blocks that qualitatively do the same thing. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573