From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org
Subject: bug#21782: 25.0.50; New functions nfront/front
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:44:55 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n13g97$2ijd$1@colin.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.20.1510291852300.4771@calancha-ilc.kek.jp>
Hello, Richard.
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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> ISTR there are traditional names for those functions.
> I don't remember what they were, but if we are going to add them,
> we should use their traditional names.
How about `firstn':
"firstn n list
Returns a list of length _n_, whose elements are the first _n_ elements
of _list_. if _list_ is fewer than _n_ elements long, the remaining
elements of the list are ni."
[ Lisp Machine Manual, Sixth Edition, System Version 99, June 1984, by
Richard Stallman, Daniel Weinreb and David Moon ]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-31 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-29 9:57 bug#21782: 25.0.50; New functions nfront/front Tino Calancha
2015-10-29 15:25 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-10-30 1:25 ` Tino Calancha
2015-10-30 2:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-30 2:53 ` Constantino Calancha
2015-10-30 9:45 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-10-30 10:10 ` Tino Calancha
2015-10-30 10:03 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-10-30 10:11 ` Tino Calancha
2015-10-30 14:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-30 18:06 ` Tino Calancha
2015-10-30 2:10 ` Tino Calancha
2015-10-30 1:33 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-30 1:41 ` Constantino Calancha
[not found] ` <mailman.1293.1446168906.7904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-31 22:44 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2017-05-18 4:08 ` Tino Calancha
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