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RE: seq-some-p and nil


From: Nicolas Petton
Subject: RE: seq-some-p and nil
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 09:56:41 +0200
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Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

>> > Was there something wrong with the suggestion to return,
>> > as the non-nil value, a cons (ELEMENT . VALUE)?
>> >
>> > (Where ELEMENT is the sequence element that satisfies the
>> > predicate, and VALUE is the return value of the predicate
>> > for that element.)
>> >
>> > That gives you "some" element that satisfies the predicate
>> > (the first such).  And it gives you the result of the test.
>> > Each of these can be useful, depending on the context.
>> 
>> It would work, and I believe Scheme has a similar function, but I don't
>> want seq-some to have this extra complexity.  It could be another
>> function though, just like in Scheme.
>
> What extra complexity?  It creates one cons cell which has as its
> car and cdr things that presumably already exist.

I meant extra complexity for the user.  If seq-some was returning a
value, I wouldn't expect it to be a cons cell, I'd almost always want
the element of the sequence straight away.

Nico
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Nicolas Petton
http://nicolas-petton.fr

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