From: Philippe M. Coatmeur <philippe.coatmeur@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dude where is my car ?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 19:00:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lzsjemn4wv.wl%philippe.coatmeur@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1688.1338000714.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
At Sat, 26 May 2012 10:51:26 +0800,
Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Since x equals ("<test@adamweb.net>" "Fri, 25 May 2012 23:49:58 +0200"
> "Re: plopz" "1648") in your second example, the car of that is
> "<test@adamweb.net>", and you can't take the car of that again, because
> it fails to pass the listp test. I think where you're going wrong is
> that nthcdr returns a list, so you can car it. Car itself returns an
> atom, so you can't.
>
> Have I got that right?
>
> Also, the whole thing might be easier to read/debug if you use "first"
> "second" "third" "fourth" to extract the list elements. Or, if that
> seems too unscientific, then "nth", that also pulls a single element out
> of a list.
>
> Eric
I did now know of those "first, second, etc" things, thanks. Turns out
I had to send the vars as such and then do the format at the last
stage of the text processing, witch makes sense. Thanks for your
patience.
Philippe
>
> --
> GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
> of 2012-05-25 on pellet
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-25 22:59 Dude where is my car ? Philippe M. Coatmeur
2012-05-26 2:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-05-26 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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2012-05-26 19:00 ` Philippe M. Coatmeur [this message]
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