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Re: Indexing a vector
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Indexing a vector |
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Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:52:14 -0500 |
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> wrote:
N> How do index an element in a vector? nth() works only for lists.
N> :(... 0 '[1 2])
N> Why on earth isn't such a basic operator compatible with both lists
N> and vectors (sequences)?
The Emacs Lisp manual (chapter 6) covers this. A vector is an array
which is a sequence, but not a list (so you can use the `elt' function
in addition to `aref' to look up elements). `nth' works only on lists.
Ted