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Re: Designing interface of a simple elisp function
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Edward O'Connor |
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Re: Designing interface of a simple elisp function |
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12 Oct 2002 17:24:55 -0700 |
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On 12 Oct 2002, Henrik Motakef wrote:
> The map-functions work on sequences, not only lists. So, for
> example
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> (mapcar 'identity "foo")
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> returns a list of three characters. An alternative would be
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> (split-string "foo" "")
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> which gives a list of one-character strings.
You want to be careful with this latter option if you want to
write portable Elisp programs. Some XEmacsen will infloop on that.
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Edward O'Connor
oconnor@soe.ucsd.edu