Re: return first element in list with certain property

[Emanuel Berg]

Marco Wahl wrote:

>> What is considered the right way to return
>> the first element in list that has a certain
>> property? The best way I've found so far is
>> `cl-some' and then `and'. While I don't
>> consider the "`and' hack" to be detrimental
>> in any way I was curious if there was
>> a complete "hack free" way... Example: get
>> the first element that is bigger than 1:
>> (cl-some (lambda (e) (and (> e 1) e)) '(1 1
>> 3 1 4 2)) ; 3
>
> (cl-loop for e in '(1 1 3 1 4 2) when (> e 1)
> return e)

Much worse than mine :)

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