Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Daniel Brooks]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 10:34:46 +0100
>> 
>> > (not (null (cdr deleted))) would avoid traversing the entire list, but it
>> > wouldn't be easier to read.
>> 
>> Perhaps a `longer-than-p' function would be helpful?  I.e.,
>> (longer-than-p deleted 1)?  (Or some better name.)
>
> Just add an optional arg LIMIT to 'length', since the implementation
> will be the same, and you just want to terminate the loop as early as
> possible.

I would still define functions with specific names like longer-than-p
which have names that specify their exact meaning, even if they just
call length with extra arguments.

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