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Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 23:46:42 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Heime wrote:

>>> Although it is easy to add to a list using push, it
>>> currently looks hideous to be able to add to the end of
>>> a list.
>> 
>> That's because adding to the end of a Lisp list is
>> a bad idea.
>
> The bad idea comment disregards necessity.

(defmacro push-last (elem lst)
  (if (and (symbolp lst)
           (not (symbol-value lst)) )
      (list 'setq 'lst `(list ,elem))
    (list 'nconc lst `(list ,elem)) ))

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