Re: disassembling list to its elements

[Kevin Rodgers]

empty wrote:
> Hallo
> Is it possible in elisp to pass elements of the list as params to some method, 
> something like disassembling the list into pieces.
> To be more clear, something what `GET-ELEMS-HOWTO' would do.
>
> (let ((param-list '("par1" "par2")))
>       (message "%s %s" (GET-ELEMS-HOWTO param-list))
> )
>
>               ||
>               ||
>              \||/
>               \/
>
>
> (let ((param-list '("par1" "par2")))
>       (message "%s %s" "par1" "par2")
> )

(let ((param-list '("par1" "par2")))
  (apply 'message "%s %s" param-list))

,----[ C-h f apply RET ]
| apply is a built-in function.
| (apply FUNCTION &rest ARGUMENTS)
|
| Call FUNCTION with our remaining args, using our last arg as list of args.
| Then return the value FUNCTION returns.
| Thus, (apply '+ 1 2 '(3 4)) returns 10.
`----

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Kevin Rodgers