RE: What to use instead of find-if?

[Drew Adams]

> So the code I'm thinking about does the following:
>   (let ((blah (find-if (lambda (elem)
>                          (whopping-great-predicatey-thing))
>                        some-list)))
>     (if blah (something using blah) (something else)))
> 
> Can anyone suggest a vaguely idiomatic way to do this using 
> the built-in constructs of elisp?

There are no doubt lots of ways to do it. Here's one:

(defun my-find-if (pred xs)
  (catch 'my-found
    (dolist (x xs) (when (funcall pred x) (throw 'my-found x)))
    nil))