Hi Alex
The diagram you produced makes a very nice and succinct reference... Whole list Only CAR ----------+-------------+----------- No result | map | mapc | | append | maplist | mapcar | | concat | mapcon | mapcan Thanks again Srini ----- Original Message ----- > From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> > To: picolisp@software-lab.de > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 4:03:59 PM >> Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> writes: >>> I am often confused between the variants of the map functions: map, >>> mapc, mapcar, mapcan, mapcon, maplist. >> Yes, indeed. The names of these 6 functions are historic, they are in >> most Lisp variants since early on. [...] >> I hope this clears things up a little. > Thanks for this nice and short explanation, I'm sure I will use this > post as a reference in the future. [Srini] Yes, for me also... > -- > cheers, > Thorsten -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe