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Re: master d62766305a: Add `take` and `ntake` (bug#56521)
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Sam Steingold |
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Re: master d62766305a: Add `take` and `ntake` (bug#56521) |
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Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:21:07 -0400 |
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> * Mattias Engdegård <znggvnfr@npz.bet> [2022-07-17 11:47:25 -0400]:
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> branch: master
> commit d62766305ad8fe6ca1695341c34b9836d051e3cb
> Author: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Commit: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
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> Add `take` and `ntake` (bug#56521)
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> These are useful list primitives, complementary to `nthcdr`.
How are these better than the venerable butlast and nbutlast?
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/List-Elements.html#index-butlast
note that butlast and nbutlast have a very long Lisp history, they
appear also in Common Lisp and many lisps before that.
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