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bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist
From: |
Kevin Ryde |
Subject: |
bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:44:21 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
I didn't immediately realize the cl `loop' macro destructuring could be
used to crunch an alist. Perhaps an example in the manual per below.
If you're not a cl programmer you need lots of examples to understand
that huge `loop' thing :-).
2010-07-10 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
* cl.texi (For Clauses): Add destructuring example processing an
alist.
--- cl.texi.orig 2010-07-10 09:37:14.000000000 +1000
+++ cl.texi 2010-07-10 09:38:54.000000000 +1000
@@ -2599,7 +2599,14 @@
than values the trailing variables get the value @code{nil}.
If @code{nil} is used as a variable name, the corresponding
values are ignored. Destructuring may be nested, and dotted
-lists of variables like @code{(x . y)} are allowed.
+lists of variables like @code{(x . y)} are allowed, so for example
+to process an alist
+
+@example
+(loop for (key . value) in '((a . 1) (b . 2))
+ collect value)
+ @result{} (1 2)
+@end example
@node Iteration Clauses, Accumulation Clauses, For Clauses, Loop Facility
@subsection Iteration Clauses
In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
of 2010-05-16 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--build'
'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib'
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.2/leim'
'--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars'
'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_AU
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
- bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist,
Kevin Ryde <=
- bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist, Glenn Morris, 2010/07/10
- bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist, Kevin Ryde, 2010/07/12
- bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist, Glenn Morris, 2010/07/13
- bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist, Kevin Ryde, 2010/07/15
- bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist, Glenn Morris, 2010/07/16
- bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist, Stefan Monnier, 2010/07/21
- bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist, Kevin Ryde, 2010/07/22
- bug#6596: 23.2; cl.texi docs loop destructuring for alist, Dan Nicolaescu, 2010/07/23