From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why aren't `find`, `find-if`, `remove-if` part of Emacs Lisp? Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:28:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d2e78nn7.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403026171 12105 80.91.229.3 (17 Jun 2014 17:29:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:29:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 17 19:29:24 2014 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 1WwxCE-0005x7-D6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:29:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WwxCD-0008MH-UR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:29:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WwxBw-0008LG-Ns for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:29:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WwxBp-0000Aa-8X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WwxBp-0000AS-2U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WwxBn-0005MQ-OF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:28:55 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.224.253]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:28:55 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:28:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WdK5utRgAMNR6/H9v18iq/7M50Y= 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:98311 Archived-At: > Emacs Lisp is a great Lisp dialect, but I miss `find`, `find-if`, > `remove-if`, etc. iteration functions a lot. Sure, I can require cl-lib > or use dash, but I'm wondering why these functions are not part of the > base language? Not sure what you mean. Most languages I know provide list operations via libraries. Why should Elisp be different? Stefan