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From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: until-found
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:10:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y6l9h4ox.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12661.1260449426.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

* Andreas Roehler [2009-12-10 13:50+0100] writes:

> And here my implementation so far:
>
> (defun until-found (search-string liste)
>   (let ((liste liste) element)
>     (while liste
>       (if (member search-string (car liste))
>           (setq element (car liste) liste nil))
>       (setq liste (cdr liste)))
>     element))

This seems to be the same as:

(car (member (lambda (element) (member search-string element)) liste))

or

(find-if (lambda (element) (member search-string element)) liste)

or

(find search-string liste :test #'member)

or

(loop for e in liste if (member search-string e) return e)

Helmut


       reply	other threads:[~2009-12-11 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.12661.1260449426.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-11 16:10 ` Helmut Eller [this message]
2009-12-11 17:35   ` until-found Andreas Röhler
2009-12-10 12:50 until-found Andreas Roehler
2009-12-10 13:58 ` until-found tomas
2009-12-11 10:33   ` until-found Andreas Röhler

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