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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Surprising behaviour of 'append' with strings
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:33:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1snbz6l.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6554cc02-2082-3dca-73cc-05fee1c6c4d0@yahoo.de

"R. Diez" <rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de> writes:

> I need a routine like this:
>
> (my-append
>   "1"
>   (list "2" "3")
>   "4"
> )
>
> The result should be:
>  ("1" "2" "3" "4")

(defun my-append (&rest args)
  (cl-mapcan (lambda (x) (if (consp x) x (list x)))
             args))

> As a bonus, 'my-append' should check that all elements are strings, or
> list of strings (no nested lists, and no other data types).

Use `cl-every' on the result of `my-append' with a `stringp' predicate.

Michael.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-06 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6554cc02-2082-3dca-73cc-05fee1c6c4d0.ref@yahoo.de>
2022-11-06 11:05 ` Surprising behaviour of 'append' with strings R. Diez
2022-11-06 12:13   ` Stephen Berman
2022-11-06 12:35     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-06 20:28       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-06 20:57         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-06 12:19   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-06 12:32   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-06 12:37   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-06 12:39   ` Jean Louis
2022-11-06 20:33   ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2022-11-06 21:45     ` [External] : " Drew Adams

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