Re: beginnerquestion (nconc)

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Stefan Huchler <stefan.huchler@mail.de>
() Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:58:17 +0100

   I found in the doku the nconc macro, which looks like some
   sort of push that puts sequences at the end instead of the
   beginning.

Was that documentation by any chance "(elisp) Rearrangement"?
That info node describes "A common pitfall...".

Personally, these days i prefer ‘cl-loop’ for non-trivial stuff:

 (cl-loop
  for n below 5
  collect (intern (string (+ ?a n))))

 => (a b c d e)

If you MUST use ‘nconc’, a common trick is to init the var w/ a
throwaway head, to be ignored (afterwards) via ‘(cdr var)’.

 (setq test3 (list 'MGMT))  ; overhead?  underfoot?  both?  :-D
 (nconc test3 (list '(a)))
 (nconc test3 (list '(b)))
 (cdr test3)

 => ((a) (b))

This example takes care to avoid quoted literals for the init
and top-level cons'ed objects.  I also dropped ‘print’ because
that happens automagically in the *scratch* buffer.

BTW, ‘nconc’ is not a macro.  I see this from ‘C-h f nconc RET’.

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