From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20737 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: cl Date: 28 Jan 1999 08:37:26 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158974 19357 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:09:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA09790 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 02:51:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAB12342; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:50:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:50:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA23633 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:49:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (larsi@ppp051.uio.no [129.240.240.52]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA09679 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 02:48:59 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA32712; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:48:35 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Angela Carter's _The Bloody Chamber_ X-Now-Playing: Nick Drake's _Bryter Layter_: "Poor Boy" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Justin Sheehy's message of "27 Jan 1999 16:01:50 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070075 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.75) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > What's wrong with the current mapc syntax? Is there something that > you would like other than to have the parameter order reversed? No, but I think that's a good reason. Virtually all the Lisp "control structures" look like (special-form variables-or-list-or-something (do-all-the-work-down-here)) Now, `mapcar' isn't a special form, but even so, I always forget whether the predicate is the first or second parameter, due in part to `sort' working the opposite way. (mapcar FUNCTION LIST) vs. (sort LIST PREDICATE) (Heh. I actually wrote the `sort' form with the parameters in the wrong order, but then I tapped `C-h f', as I always do when I write `sort' or `mapcar', and it told me I was wrong, as usual. :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen