Re: elisp: how to pass a list argument to defun

[Pascal Bourguignon]

"lalit mohan tripathi" <lalit.tripathi@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi All,
>    Could anyone tell me how to pass a list argument in elisp to a defun?
>    I'm want to write a defun like this
> (defun process-list-fn (list02, a, b, c)
>   "This function prints the list02, a, b, c."
>   (print list02)
>   (print a)
>   (print b)
>   (print c))
> I want to use it like this:
> (setq list01 '("abc" "def" "xyz"))
> (process-list-fn list01 10 20 30)


(defun process-list-fn (list02, a, b, c)
  "This function prints the list02, a, b, c."
  (print list02,)
  (print a,)
  (print b,)
  (print c))


(process-list-fn 'list01 10 20 30)

prints:
list01

10

20

30

returns:
30

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