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bug#21782: 25.0.50; New functions nfront/front
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Alan Mackenzie |
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bug#21782: 25.0.50; New functions nfront/front |
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Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:44:55 +0000 (UTC) |
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Hello, Richard.
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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> ISTR there are traditional names for those functions.
> I don't remember what they were, but if we are going to add them,
> we should use their traditional names.
How about `firstn':
"firstn n list
Returns a list of length _n_, whose elements are the first _n_ elements
of _list_. if _list_ is fewer than _n_ elements long, the remaining
elements of the list are ni."
[ Lisp Machine Manual, Sixth Edition, System Version 99, June 1984, by
Richard Stallman, Daniel Weinreb and David Moon ]
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bug#21782: 25.0.50; New functions nfront/front, Tino Calancha, 2015/10/29
bug#21782: 25.0.50; New functions nfront/front, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/29
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