From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: request for a new function, say, `sequence' Date: 26 Mar 2003 10:34:20 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200303250015.JAA06592@etlken.m17n.org> <200303250050.JAA06631@etlken.m17n.org> <200303250057.h2P0vBj6016367@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200303250125.KAA06703@etlken.m17n.org> <32627.1048557446@theforce.Stanford.EDU> <200303250208.LAA06802@etlken.m17n.org> <1191.1048560083@theforce.Stanford.EDU> <200303250446.NAA06974@etlken.m17n.org> <200303251527.h2PFR0lO018653@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200303252311.IAA08003@etlken.m17n.org> <20030326001145.GA16603@gnu.org> <200303260040.SAA26393@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048642860 26328 80.91.224.249 (26 Mar 2003 01:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:41:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 26 02:40:55 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xzuR-0006pn-00 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 02:40:55 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18xzvb-0003X8-00 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 02:42:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xzsu-0001kQ-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:39:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xzqs-00007j-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xzq9-0007yb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:36:30 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.51]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xzoW-0006NL-00; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:34:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.194])h2Q1YTw27927; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:34:30 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id h2Q1YSK17138; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:34:28 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from edtmg03.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.26.16.203]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id h2Q1YRH06690; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:34:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) KAA07074; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:34:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) with ESMTP id h2Q1YKNH023629; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:34:26 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 9BB953702; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:34:20 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <200303260040.SAA26393@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Original-Lines: 17 Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12620 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12620 Luc Teirlinck writes: > BTW, pale blue-green: I keep wanting to suggest that this function > be called `iota', after the APL function with similar > functionality. I think various common-lisp/schemes versions of > this function use this name (though I seem to recall that the > function signature is usually (iota COUNT &optional START INTERVAL) > > I do not believe that Common Lisp has this function. Does Guile? It's not a standard common-lisp function. However, I think the way I expressed it is a common formulation for this particular functionality (I've seen it pop up numerous times). -Miles -- `To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson