Re: [merge request] Reverted 'some' and 'program-available'



Am Samstag, den 10.10.2009, 13:11 +0900 schrieb Teika Kazura:
> Hi. Please merge my branch. It deletes recently adopted functions,
> 'some' and 'program-available'. They should be, if ever, in librep, not
> in Sawfish.
> 
> ;; usage
> (some predicate list)
> If any element of LIST is non-nil as the argument of the function
> PREDICATE, then returns t.
> 
> 'Some' can be accepted only if Scheme or Clisp has the same thing.  It
> is useful, but any lisp coder can write it in a minute.  Elisp doesn't
> seem to have this one.
> 
> program-available returns t if the arg is in PATH. But since 
> (system cmd) executes cmd in shell, and signals error if impossible,
> it seems redundant. 
> 
> If it is to be adopted again in librep, then it's better to replace it
> with 'which'. (man which doesn't say it's POSIX, so having one may be
> good.)

XXX do before 1.1.0 (2011?)

> Let me point out that librep lacks file-executable-p.

XXX do before 1.0.0

> Thanks,
> Teika (Teika kazura)

merged.

Chris

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