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bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:05:51 +0200 |
>>>>> On Tue, 04 Oct 2022 01:47:59 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>>>>> said:
Lars> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>> Unfortunately I cannot find a replacement for `-keep', which I have been
>> using a lot. I propose that we add something like:
>>
>> (cl-defgeneric seq-keep (pred sequence)
>> "Return a list of all non-nil results of (PRED element) for elements in
SEQUENCE."
>> (delq nil (seq-map (lambda (elt) (funcall pred elt))
>> sequence)))
Lars> Hm... well, here PRED isn't a predicate, really, but a transforming
Lars> function? But you wish to filter out the nil results of that
Lars> transforming function.
Lars> That sounds useful -- there's more than a 100 matches for "delq
Lars> nil.*map" in-tree only -- but it's slightly confusing that the
function
Lars> isn't altogether a predicate, but only kinda. Would a function
Lars> signature like
Lars> (cl-defgeneric seq-keep (function sequence &optional pred)
Lars> ...)
Lars> make more sense for this combination of map/filter? (The default
Lars> predicate would, of course, be "not null".)
How is this different from 'cl-mapcan'? (apart from the syntactic sugar)
Robert
--
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Jonas Bernoulli, 2022/10/03
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/03
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep,
Robert Pluim <=
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/04
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Robert Pluim, 2022/10/04
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/04
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Robert Pluim, 2022/10/04
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/04
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Robert Pluim, 2022/10/04
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/04
- bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Robert Pluim, 2022/10/04
bug#58278: Add new function seq-keep, Jonas Bernoulli, 2022/10/04