Re: concat with separators ?

[Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, 28 May 2017, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

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>> On May 24, 2017, at 23:34, Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I just realized today that concat did not come with optional separators (unlike mapconcat). Is there a reason for that ?
>>>
>>>> I just using mapconcat when I feel that need:
>>>>
>>>> Example:
>>>>
>>>> (mapconcat #'identity '("a" "b" "c") "|")  => "a|b|c"
>>>
>>> That's roughly the definition of string-join in subr-x:
>>>
>>> (defsubst string-join (strings &optional separator)
>>>  "Join all STRINGS using SEPARATOR."
>>>  (mapconcat 'identity strings separator))
>
> Would it be acceptable to provide separators to concat or is it preferable to use string-join instead?
The latter.
Func. `concat' accepts and arbitrary number of sequences (not a list of
sequences as `string-join').