Topic: Comparing List Variables

[JohnK]

Here it is...
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=723.msg9848#msg9848

Very good read.

[MP]

Sorry, wasn't trying to be a dk, or diminish how nice the function is, just sayin' (as you would yourself). :/

[JohnK]

Sorry, wasn't trying to be a dk, or diminish how nice the function is, just sayin' (as you would yourself). :/

Oh no. I didnt take any offense at all! ...I screwed up by calling it iterative (I said `Red' instead of `Blue' and you corrected me. I cant get angry, if i did i would be a psychopath).

Me? I dont really care about ``Forum Face'' (That is one of the reasons why i use a Pseudo name and i will always address people with their pseudo names in public) so i dont really care about the glory or the failures; I try. Besides, I'm human. I know *I* know the difference and i don't really care if people think i do or not. I know *I* read SICP and that is enough sense of accomplishment for me...I dont need to flaunt it.

[gile]

that one looks like something Tony wrote around 1692.

In Reini Urban's AutoLISP FAQ, this routine is attributed to Serge Volkov.

;;; Removes an item from a list (double elements allowed)
  ;;;   (remove 0 '(0 1 2 3 0)) -> (1 2 3)
  (defun REMOVE (ele lst)      ; by Serge Volkov
    (apply 'append (subst nil (list ele) (mapcar 'list lst))))

[MP]

Guess I misread the "meh". Forum face, that's a good one.

In Reini Urban's AutoLISP FAQ, this routine is attributed to Serge Volkov.

;;; Removes an item from a list (double elements allowed)
  ;;;   (remove 0 '(0 1 2 3 0)) -> (1 2 3)
  (defun REMOVE (ele lst)      ; by Serge Volkov
    (apply 'append (subst nil (list ele) (mapcar 'list lst))))

You could be right, my comment was based on the fact that semantically, it looks like something Tony would have penned way back. Having said that, some "solutions" are often the same verbatim, but are arrived at by different camps completely independently, because the path of least resistance, logically speaking, for some folks is very similar, tho that would not necessarily be true for Tony and Reini (I remember some lisp philosophy wars back when, oh my).