From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Looping lists through mapcar Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:09:23 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87tu61zx10.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17793"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 25 10:44:59 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oR8Ty-0004Pa-UB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:44:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46086 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oR8Tx-0002dV-Sk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 04:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oR7ya-0007uf-TO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 04:12:34 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:53239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oR7yU-0005Ct-In for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 04:12:29 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.5.155]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5B0E.0000000063072EC8.000056DD; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:11:52 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tu61zx10.fsf@dataswamp.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DATE_IN_PAST_12_24=1.049, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139073 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg [2022-08-24 15:05]: > > (defun my-assoc-lists () > > (let* ((name "andromeda-assoc-table-") > > (list '()) > > (counter 1)) > > (while (boundp (intern (concat name (number-to-string counter)))) > > (setq list (append list (symbol-value (intern (concat name (number-to-string counter)))))) > > (setq counter (1+ counter))) > > list)) > > DANGER! > Don't read the above code. > Your own programming could > deteriorate as a result. But it works, doesn't it? How can you make it easier? -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/