From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
To: jun <netjune@163.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can we add two args to copy-sequence?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 23:54:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a7ykfmtf.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <253aa3ee.50f5.160583aebc5.Coremail.netjune@163.com> (jun's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:32:24 +0800 (CST)")
>>>>> "j" == jun <netjune@163.com> writes:
j> like this: (copy-sequence seq &optional from to). 'from' and 'to' mean the
j> same as in the function 'substring'.
I'd rather not overload copy-sequence that way, and rather have a new function
named (sublist LIST &optional FROM TO), even if copy-sequence xs == sublist xs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-15 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-15 3:32 Can we add two args to copy-sequence? jun
2017-12-15 7:54 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2017-12-15 8:24 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-12-15 14:52 ` jun
2017-12-16 6:18 ` John Wiegley
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