dash.el

A modern list API for Emacs. No 'cl required.

See the end of the file for license conditions.

Contents

• Change log
  • Upcoming breaking change!
• Installation
• Functions
• Contribute
• Contributors
• License

Change log

See the NEWS.md file.

Upcoming breaking change!

• For backward compatibility reasons, -zip when called with two lists returns a list of cons cells, rather than a list of proper lists. This is a clunky API, and may be changed in a future release to always return a list of proper lists, as -zip-lists currently does.

  N.B.: Do not rely on the current behavior of -zip for two lists. Instead, use -zip-pair for a list of cons cells, and -zip-lists for a list of proper lists.

Installation

Dash is available on GNU ELPA, GNU-devel ELPA, and MELPA, and can be installed with the standard command package-install:

M-x package-install RET dash RET

See (info "(emacs) Package Installation").

Alternatively, you can just dump dash.el in your load-path somewhere. See (info "(emacs) Lisp Libraries").

Using in a package

Add something like this to the library's headers:

;; Package-Requires: ((dash "2.18.1"))

See (info "(elisp) Library Headers").

Fontification of special variables

Font lock of special Dash variables (it, acc, etc.) in Emacs Lisp buffers can optionally be enabled with the autoloaded minor mode dash-fontify-mode. In older Emacs versions which do not dynamically detect macros, the minor mode also fontifies Dash macro calls.

To automatically enable the minor mode in all Emacs Lisp buffers, just call its autoloaded global counterpart global-dash-fontify-mode, either interactively or from your user-init-file:

(global-dash-fontify-mode)

Info symbol lookup

While editing Elisp files, you can use C-h S (info-lookup-symbol) to look up Elisp symbols in the relevant Info manuals (see (emacs) Info Lookup). To enable the same for Dash symbols, use the command dash-register-info-lookup. It can be called directly when needed, or automatically from your user-init-file. For example:

(with-eval-after-load 'info-look
  (dash-register-info-lookup))

Functions

All functions and constructs in the library use a dash (-) prefix.

The library also provides anaphoric macro versions of functions where that makes sense. The names of these macros are prefixed with two dashes (--) instead of one.

While -map applies a function to each element of a list, its anaphoric counterpart --map evaluates a form with the local variable it temporarily bound to the current list element instead. For example:

(-map (lambda (n) (* n n)) '(1 2 3 4)) ; Normal version.
(--map (* it it) '(1 2 3 4))           ; Anaphoric version.

The normal version can of course also be written as follows:

(defun my-square (n)
  "Return N multiplied by itself."
  (* n n))

(-map #'my-square '(1 2 3 4))

This demonstrates the utility of both versions.

Maps

Functions in this category take a transforming function, which is then applied sequentially to each or selected elements of the input list. The results are collected in order and returned as a new list.

• -map (fn list)
• -map-when (pred rep list)
• -map-first (pred rep list)
• -map-last (pred rep list)
• -map-indexed (fn list)
• -annotate (fn list)
• -splice (pred fun list)
• -splice-list (pred new-list list)
• -mapcat (fn list)
• -copy (list)

Sublist selection

Functions returning a sublist of the original list.

• -filter (pred list)
• -remove (pred list)
• -remove-first (pred list)
• -remove-last (pred list)
• -remove-item (item list)
• -non-nil (list)
• -slice (list from &optional to step)
• -take (n list)
• -take-last (n list)
• -drop (n list)
• -drop-last (n list)
• -take-while (pred list)
• -drop-while (pred list)
• -select-by-indices (indices list)
• -select-columns (columns table)
• -select-column (column table)

List to list

Functions returning a modified copy of the input list.

• -keep (fn list)
• -concat (&rest lists)
• -flatten (l)
• -flatten-n (num list)
• -replace (old new list)
• -replace-first (old new list)
• -replace-last (old new list)
• -insert-at (n x list)
• -replace-at (n x list)
• -update-at (n func list)
• -remove-at (n list)
• -remove-at-indices (indices list)

Reductions

Functions reducing lists to a single value (which may also be a list).

• -reduce-from (fn init list)
• -reduce-r-from (fn init list)
• -reduce (fn list)
• -reduce-r (fn list)
• -reductions-from (fn init list)
• -reductions-r-from (fn init list)
• -reductions (fn list)
• -reductions-r (fn list)
• -count (pred list)
• -sum (list)
• -running-sum (list)
• -product (list)
• -running-product (list)
• -inits (list)
• -tails (list)
• -common-prefix (&rest lists)
• -common-suffix (&rest lists)
• -min (list)
• -min-by (comparator list)
• -max (list)
• -max-by (comparator list)

Unfolding

Operations dual to reductions, building lists from a seed value rather than consuming a list to produce a single value.

• -iterate (fun init n)
• -unfold (fun seed)

Predicates

Reductions of one or more lists to a boolean value.

• -any? (pred list)
• -all? (pred list)
• -none? (pred list)
• -only-some? (pred list)
• -contains? (list element)
• -same-items? (list list2)
• -is-prefix? (prefix list)
• -is-suffix? (suffix list)
• -is-infix? (infix list)
• -cons-pair? (obj)

Partitioning

Functions partitioning the input list into a list of lists.

• -split-at (n list)
• -split-with (pred list)
• -split-on (item list)
• -split-when (fn list)
• -separate (pred list)
• -partition (n list)
• -partition-all (n list)
• -partition-in-steps (n step list)
• -partition-all-in-steps (n step list)
• -partition-by (fn list)
• -partition-by-header (fn list)
• -partition-after-pred (pred list)
• -partition-before-pred (pred list)
• -partition-before-item (item list)
• -partition-after-item (item list)
• -group-by (fn list)

Indexing

Functions retrieving or sorting based on list indices and related predicates.

• -elem-index (elem list)
• -elem-indices (elem list)
• -find-index (pred list)
• -find-last-index (pred list)
• -find-indices (pred list)
• -grade-up (comparator list)
• -grade-down (comparator list)

Set operations

Operations pretending lists are sets.

• -union (list list2)
• -difference (list list2)
• -intersection (list list2)
• -powerset (list)
• -permutations (list)
• -distinct (list)

Other list operations

Other list functions not fit to be classified elsewhere.

• -rotate (n list)
• -repeat (n x)
• -cons* (&rest args)
• -snoc (list elem &rest elements)
• -interpose (sep list)
• -interleave (&rest lists)
• -iota (count &optional start step)
• -zip-with (fn list1 list2)
• -zip (&rest lists)
• -zip-lists (&rest lists)
• -zip-fill (fill-value &rest lists)
• -unzip (lists)
• -cycle (list)
• -pad (fill-value &rest lists)
• -table (fn &rest lists)
• -table-flat (fn &rest lists)
• -first (pred list)
• -some (pred list)
• -last (pred list)
• -first-item (list)
• -second-item (list)
• -third-item (list)
• -fourth-item (list)
• -fifth-item (list)
• -last-item (list)
• -butlast (list)
• -sort (comparator list)
• -list (arg)
• -fix (fn list)

Tree operations

Functions pretending lists are trees.

• -tree-seq (branch children tree)
• -tree-map (fn tree)
• -tree-map-nodes (pred fun tree)
• -tree-reduce (fn tree)
• -tree-reduce-from (fn init-value tree)
• -tree-mapreduce (fn folder tree)
• -tree-mapreduce-from (fn folder init-value tree)
• -clone (list)

Threading macros

Macros that conditionally combine sequential forms for brevity or readability.

• -> (x &optional form &rest more)
• ->> (x &optional form &rest more)
• --> (x &rest forms)
• -as-> (value variable &rest forms)
• -some-> (x &optional form &rest more)
• -some->> (x &optional form &rest more)
• -some--> (expr &rest forms)
• -doto (init &rest forms)

Binding

Macros that combine let and let* with destructuring and flow control.

• -when-let ((var val) &rest body)
• -when-let* (vars-vals &rest body)
• -if-let ((var val) then &rest else)
• -if-let* (vars-vals then &rest else)
• -let (varlist &rest body)
• -let* (varlist &rest body)
• -lambda (match-form &rest body)
• -setq ([match-form val] ...)

Side effects

Functions iterating over lists for side effect only.

• -each (list fn)
• -each-while (list pred fn)
• -each-indexed (list fn)
• -each-r (list fn)
• -each-r-while (list pred fn)
• -dotimes (num fn)

Destructive operations

Macros that modify variables holding lists.

• !cons (car cdr)
• !cdr (list)

Function combinators

Functions that manipulate and compose other functions.

• -partial (fn &rest args)
• -rpartial (fn &rest args)
• -juxt (&rest fns)
• -compose (&rest fns)
• -applify (fn)
• -on (operator transformer)
• -flip (func)
• -const (c)
• -cut (&rest params)
• -not (pred)
• -orfn (&rest preds)
• -andfn (&rest preds)
• -iteratefn (fn n)
• -fixfn (fn &optional equal-test halt-test)
• -prodfn (&rest fns)

Maps

Functions in this category take a transforming function, which is then applied sequentially to each or selected elements of the input list. The results are collected in order and returned as a new list.

-map (fn list)

Apply fn to each item in list and return the list of results.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --map.

(-map (lambda (num) (* num num)) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 4 9 16)
(-map #'1+ '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (2 3 4 5)
(--map (* it it) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 4 9 16)

-map-when (pred rep list)

Return a new list where the elements in list that do not match the pred function are unchanged, and where the elements in list that do match the pred function are mapped through the rep function.

Alias: -replace-where

See also: -update-at

(-map-when 'even? 'square '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 4 3 16)
(--map-when (> it 2) (* it it) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 2 9 16)
(--map-when (= it 2) 17 '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 17 3 4)

-map-first (pred rep list)

Replace first item in list satisfying pred with result of rep called on this item.

See also: -map-when, -replace-first

(-map-first 'even? 'square '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 4 3 4)
(--map-first (> it 2) (* it it) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 2 9 4)
(--map-first (= it 2) 17 '(1 2 3 2)) ;; => (1 17 3 2)

-map-last (pred rep list)

Replace last item in list satisfying pred with result of rep called on this item.

See also: -map-when, -replace-last

(-map-last 'even? 'square '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 2 3 16)
(--map-last (> it 2) (* it it) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 2 3 16)
(--map-last (= it 2) 17 '(1 2 3 2)) ;; => (1 2 3 17)

-map-indexed (fn list)

Apply fn to each index and item in list and return the list of results. This is like -map, but fn takes two arguments: the index of the current element within list, and the element itself.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --map-indexed.

For a side-effecting variant, see also -each-indexed.

(-map-indexed (lambda (index item) (- item index)) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 1 1 1)
(--map-indexed (- it it-index) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 1 1 1)
(-map-indexed #'* '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (0 2 6 12)

-annotate (fn list)

Return a list of cons cells where each cell is fn applied to each element of list paired with the unmodified element of list.

(-annotate '1+ '(1 2 3)) ;; => ((2 . 1) (3 . 2) (4 . 3))
(-annotate 'length '(("h" "e" "l" "l" "o") ("hello" "world"))) ;; => ((5 "h" "e" "l" "l" "o") (2 "hello" "world"))
(--annotate (< 1 it) '(0 1 2 3)) ;; => ((nil . 0) (nil . 1) (t . 2) (t . 3))

-splice (pred fun list)

Splice lists generated by fun in place of elements matching pred in list.

fun takes the element matching pred as input.

This function can be used as replacement for ,@ in case you need to splice several lists at marked positions (for example with keywords).

See also: -splice-list, -insert-at

(-splice 'even? (lambda (x) (list x x)) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 2 2 3 4 4)
(--splice 't (list it it) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4)
(--splice (equal it :magic) '((list of) (magical) (code)) '((foo) (bar) :magic (baz))) ;; => ((foo) (bar) (list of) (magical) (code) (baz))

-splice-list (pred new-list list)

Splice new-list in place of elements matching pred in list.

See also: -splice, -insert-at

(-splice-list 'keywordp '(a b c) '(1 :foo 2)) ;; => (1 a b c 2)
(-splice-list 'keywordp nil '(1 :foo 2)) ;; => (1 2)
(--splice-list (keywordp it) '(a b c) '(1 :foo 2)) ;; => (1 a b c 2)

-mapcat (fn list)

Return the concatenation of the result of mapping fn over list. Thus function fn should return a list.

(-mapcat 'list '(1 2 3)) ;; => (1 2 3)
(-mapcat (lambda (item) (list 0 item)) '(1 2 3)) ;; => (0 1 0 2 0 3)
(--mapcat (list 0 it) '(1 2 3)) ;; => (0 1 0 2 0 3)

-copy (list)

Create a shallow copy of list.

(-copy '(1 2 3)) ;; => (1 2 3)
(let ((a '(1 2 3))) (eq a (-copy a))) ;; => nil

Sublist selection

Functions returning a sublist of the original list.

-filter (pred list)

Return a new list of the items in list for which pred returns non-nil.

Alias: -select.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --filter.

For similar operations, see also -keep and -remove.

(-filter (lambda (num) (= 0 (% num 2))) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (2 4)
(-filter #'natnump '(-2 -1 0 1 2)) ;; => (0 1 2)
(--filter (= 0 (% it 2)) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (2 4)

-remove (pred list)

Return a new list of the items in list for which pred returns nil.

Alias: -reject.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --remove.

For similar operations, see also -keep and -filter.

(-remove (lambda (num) (= 0 (% num 2))) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 3)
(-remove #'natnump '(-2 -1 0 1 2)) ;; => (-2 -1)
(--remove (= 0 (% it 2)) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 3)

-remove-first (pred list)

Remove the first item from list for which pred returns non-nil. This is a non-destructive operation, but only the front of list leading up to the removed item is a copy; the rest is list's original tail. If no item is removed, then the result is a complete copy.

Alias: -reject-first.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --remove-first.

See also -map-first, -remove-item, and -remove-last.

(-remove-first #'natnump '(-2 -1 0 1 2)) ;; => (-2 -1 1 2)
(-remove-first #'stringp '(1 2 "first" "second")) ;; => (1 2 "second")
(--remove-first (> it 3) '(1 2 3 4 5 6)) ;; => (1 2 3 5 6)

-remove-last (pred list)

Remove the last item from list for which pred returns non-nil. The result is a copy of list regardless of whether an element is removed.

Alias: -reject-last.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --remove-last.

See also -map-last, -remove-item, and -remove-first.

(-remove-last #'natnump '(1 3 5 4 7 8 10 -11)) ;; => (1 3 5 4 7 8 -11)
(-remove-last #'stringp '(1 2 "last" "second")) ;; => (1 2 "last")
(--remove-last (> it 3) '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)

-remove-item (item list)

Return a copy of list with all occurrences of item removed. The comparison is done with equal.

(-remove-item 3 '(1 2 3 2 3 4 5 3)) ;; => (1 2 2 4 5)
(-remove-item 'foo '(foo bar baz foo)) ;; => (bar baz)
(-remove-item "bob" '("alice" "bob" "eve" "bob")) ;; => ("alice" "eve")

-non-nil (list)

Return a copy of list with all nil items removed.

(-non-nil '(nil 1 nil 2 nil nil 3 4 nil 5 nil)) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5)
(-non-nil '((nil))) ;; => ((nil))
(-non-nil ()) ;; => ()

-slice (list from &optional to step)

Return copy of list, starting from index from to index to.

from or to may be negative. These values are then interpreted modulo the length of the list.

If step is a number, only each stepth item in the resulting section is returned. Defaults to 1.

(-slice '(1 2 3 4 5) 1) ;; => (2 3 4 5)
(-slice '(1 2 3 4 5) 0 3) ;; => (1 2 3)
(-slice '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) 1 -1 2) ;; => (2 4 6 8)

-take (n list)

Return a copy of the first n items in list. Return a copy of list if it contains n items or fewer. Return nil if n is zero or less.

See also: -take-last.

(-take 3 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (1 2 3)
(-take 17 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5)
(-take 0 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => ()

-take-last (n list)

Return a copy of the last n items of list in order. Return a copy of list if it contains n items or fewer. Return nil if n is zero or less.

See also: -take.

(-take-last 3 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (3 4 5)
(-take-last 17 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5)
(-take-last 1 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (5)

-drop (n list)

Return the tail (not a copy) of list without the first n items. Return nil if list contains n items or fewer. Return list if n is zero or less.

For another variant, see also -drop-last.

(-drop 3 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (4 5)
(-drop 17 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => ()
(-drop 0 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5)

-drop-last (n list)

Return a copy of list without its last n items. Return a copy of list if n is zero or less. Return nil if list contains n items or fewer.

See also: -drop.

(-drop-last 3 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (1 2)
(-drop-last 17 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => ()
(-drop-last 0 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5)

-take-while (pred list)

Take successive items from list for which pred returns non-nil. pred is a function of one argument. Return a new list of the successive elements from the start of list for which pred returns non-nil.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --take-while.

For another variant, see also -drop-while.

(-take-while #'even? '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => ()
(-take-while #'even? '(2 4 5 6)) ;; => (2 4)
(--take-while (< it 4) '(1 2 3 4 3 2 1)) ;; => (1 2 3)

-drop-while (pred list)

Drop successive items from list for which pred returns non-nil. pred is a function of one argument. Return the tail (not a copy) of list starting from its first element for which pred returns nil.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --drop-while.

For another variant, see also -take-while.

(-drop-while #'even? '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 2 3 4)
(-drop-while #'even? '(2 4 5 6)) ;; => (5 6)
(--drop-while (< it 4) '(1 2 3 4 3 2 1)) ;; => (4 3 2 1)

-select-by-indices (indices list)

Return a list whose elements are elements from list selected as (nth i list) for all i from indices.

(-select-by-indices '(4 10 2 3 6) '("v" "e" "l" "o" "c" "i" "r" "a" "p" "t" "o" "r")) ;; => ("c" "o" "l" "o" "r")
(-select-by-indices '(2 1 0) '("a" "b" "c")) ;; => ("c" "b" "a")
(-select-by-indices '(0 1 2 0 1 3 3 1) '("f" "a" "r" "l")) ;; => ("f" "a" "r" "f" "a" "l" "l" "a")

-select-columns (columns table)

Select columns from table.

table is a list of lists where each element represents one row. It is assumed each row has the same length.

Each row is transformed such that only the specified columns are selected.

See also: -select-column, -select-by-indices

(-select-columns '(0 2) '((1 2 3) (a b c) (:a :b :c))) ;; => ((1 3) (a c) (:a :c))
(-select-columns '(1) '((1 2 3) (a b c) (:a :b :c))) ;; => ((2) (b) (:b))
(-select-columns nil '((1 2 3) (a b c) (:a :b :c))) ;; => (nil nil nil)

-select-column (column table)

Select column from table.

table is a list of lists where each element represents one row. It is assumed each row has the same length.

The single selected column is returned as a list.

See also: -select-columns, -select-by-indices

(-select-column 1 '((1 2 3) (a b c) (:a :b :c))) ;; => (2 b :b)

List to list

Functions returning a modified copy of the input list.

-keep (fn list)

Return a new list of the non-nil results of applying fn to each item in list. Like -filter, but returns the non-nil results of fn instead of the corresponding elements of list.

Its anaphoric counterpart is --keep.

(-keep #'cdr '((1 2 3) (4 5) (6))) ;; => ((2 3) (5))
(-keep (lambda (n) (and (> n 3) (* 10 n))) '(1 2 3 4 5 6)) ;; => (40 50 60)
(--keep (and (> it 3) (* 10 it)) '(1 2 3 4 5 6)) ;; => (40 50 60)

-concat (&rest lists)

Return a new list with the concatenation of the elements in the supplied lists.

(-concat '(1)) ;; => (1)
(-concat '(1) '(2)) ;; => (1 2)
(-concat '(1) '(2 3) '(4)) ;; => (1 2 3 4)

-flatten (l)

Take a nested list l and return its contents as a single, flat list.

Note that because nil represents a list of zero elements (an empty list), any mention of nil in l will disappear after flattening. If you need to preserve nils, consider -flatten-n or map them to some unique symbol and then map them back.

Conses of two atoms are considered "terminals", that is, they aren't flattened further.

See also: -flatten-n

(-flatten '((1))) ;; => (1)
(-flatten '((1 (2 3) (((4 (5))))))) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5)
(-flatten '(1 2 (3 . 4))) ;; => (1 2 (3 . 4))

-flatten-n (num list)

Flatten num levels of a nested list.

See also: -flatten

(-flatten-n 1 '((1 2) ((3 4) ((5 6))))) ;; => (1 2 (3 4) ((5 6)))
(-flatten-n 2 '((1 2) ((3 4) ((5 6))))) ;; => (1 2 3 4 (5 6))
(-flatten-n 3 '((1 2) ((3 4) ((5 6))))) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5 6)

-replace (old new list)

Replace all old items in list with new.

Elements are compared using equal.

See also: -replace-at

(-replace 1 "1" '(1 2 3 4 3 2 1)) ;; => ("1" 2 3 4 3 2 "1")
(-replace "foo" "bar" '("a" "nice" "foo" "sentence" "about" "foo")) ;; => ("a" "nice" "bar" "sentence" "about" "bar")
(-replace 1 2 nil) ;; => nil

-replace-first (old new list)

Replace the first occurrence of old with new in list.

Elements are compared using equal.

See also: -map-first

(-replace-first 1 "1" '(1 2 3 4 3 2 1)) ;; => ("1" 2 3 4 3 2 1)
(-replace-first "foo" "bar" '("a" "nice" "foo" "sentence" "about" "foo")) ;; => ("a" "nice" "bar" "sentence" "about" "foo")
(-replace-first 1 2 nil) ;; => nil

-replace-last (old new list)

Replace the last occurrence of old with new in list.

Elements are compared using equal.

See also: -map-last

(-replace-last 1 "1" '(1 2 3 4 3 2 1)) ;; => (1 2 3 4 3 2 "1")
(-replace-last "foo" "bar" '("a" "nice" "foo" "sentence" "about" "foo")) ;; => ("a" "nice" "foo" "sentence" "about" "bar")
(-replace-last 1 2 nil) ;; => nil

-insert-at (n x list)

Return a list with x inserted into list at position n.

See also: -splice, -splice-list

(-insert-at 1 'x '(a b c)) ;; => (a x b c)
(-insert-at 12 'x '(a b c)) ;; => (a b c x)

-replace-at (n x list)

Return a list with element at nth position in list replaced with x.

See also: -replace

(-replace-at 0 9 '(0 1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (9 1 2 3 4 5)
(-replace-at 1 9 '(0 1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (0 9 2 3 4 5)
(-replace-at 4 9 '(0 1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (0 1 2 3 9 5)

-update-at (n func list)

Return a list with element at nth position in list replaced with (func (nth n list)).

See also: -map-when

(-update-at 0 (lambda (x) (+ x 9)) '(0 1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (9 1 2 3 4 5)
(-update-at 1 (lambda (x) (+ x 8)) '(0 1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (0 9 2 3 4 5)
(--update-at 2 (length it) '("foo" "bar" "baz" "quux")) ;; => ("foo" "bar" 3 "quux")

-remove-at (n list)

Return a list with element at nth position in list removed.

See also: -remove-at-indices, -remove

(-remove-at 0 '("0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5")) ;; => ("1" "2" "3" "4" "5")
(-remove-at 1 '("0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5")) ;; => ("0" "2" "3" "4" "5")
(-remove-at 2 '("0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5")) ;; => ("0" "1" "3" "4" "5")

-remove-at-indices (indices list)

Return a list whose elements are elements from list without elements selected as (nth i list) for all i from indices.

See also: -remove-at, -remove

(-remove-at-indices '(0) '("0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5")) ;; => ("1" "2" "3" "4" "5")
(-remove-at-indices '(0 2 4) '("0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5")) ;; => ("1" "3" "5")
(-remove-at-indices '(0 5) '("0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5")) ;; => ("1" "2" "3" "4")

Reductions

Functions reducing lists to a single value (which may also be a list).

-reduce-from (fn init list)

Reduce the function fn across list, starting with init. Return the result of applying fn to init and the first element of list, then applying fn to that result and the second element, etc. If list is empty, return init without calling fn.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --reduce-from.

For other folds, see also -reduce and -reduce-r.

(-reduce-from #'- 10 '(1 2 3)) ;; => 4
(-reduce-from #'list 10 '(1 2 3)) ;; => (((10 1) 2) 3)
(--reduce-from (concat acc " " it) "START" '("a" "b" "c")) ;; => "START a b c"

-reduce-r-from (fn init list)

Reduce the function fn across list in reverse, starting with init. Return the result of applying fn to the last element of list and init, then applying fn to the second-to-last element and the previous result of fn, etc. That is, the first argument of fn is the current element, and its second argument the accumulated value. If list is empty, return init without calling fn.

This function is like -reduce-from but the operation associates from the right rather than left. In other words, it starts from the end of list and flips the arguments to fn. Conceptually, it is like replacing the conses in list with applications of fn, and its last link with init, and evaluating the resulting expression.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --reduce-r-from.

For other folds, see also -reduce-r and -reduce.

(-reduce-r-from #'- 10 '(1 2 3)) ;; => -8
(-reduce-r-from #'list 10 '(1 2 3)) ;; => (1 (2 (3 10)))
(--reduce-r-from (concat it " " acc) "END" '("a" "b" "c")) ;; => "a b c END"

-reduce (fn list)

Reduce the function fn across list. Return the result of applying fn to the first two elements of list, then applying fn to that result and the third element, etc. If list contains a single element, return it without calling fn. If list is empty, return the result of calling fn with no arguments.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --reduce.

For other folds, see also -reduce-from and -reduce-r.

(-reduce #'- '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => -8
(-reduce #'list '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (((1 2) 3) 4)
(--reduce (format "%s-%d" acc it) '(1 2 3)) ;; => "1-2-3"

-reduce-r (fn list)

Reduce the function fn across list in reverse. Return the result of applying fn to the last two elements of list, then applying fn to the third-to-last element and the previous result of fn, etc. That is, the first argument of fn is the current element, and its second argument the accumulated value. If list contains a single element, return it without calling fn. If list is empty, return the result of calling fn with no arguments.

This function is like -reduce but the operation associates from the right rather than left. In other words, it starts from the end of list and flips the arguments to fn. Conceptually, it is like replacing the conses in list with applications of fn, ignoring its last link, and evaluating the resulting expression.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --reduce-r.

For other folds, see also -reduce-r-from and -reduce.

(-reduce-r #'- '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => -2
(-reduce-r #'list '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 (2 (3 4)))
(--reduce-r (format "%s-%d" acc it) '(1 2 3)) ;; => "3-2-1"

-reductions-from (fn init list)

Return a list of fn's intermediate reductions across list. That is, a list of the intermediate values of the accumulator when -reduce-from (which see) is called with the same arguments.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --reductions-from.

For other folds, see also -reductions and -reductions-r.

(-reductions-from #'max 0 '(2 1 4 3)) ;; => (0 2 2 4 4)
(-reductions-from #'* 1 '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 1 2 6 24)
(--reductions-from (format "(FN %s %d)" acc it) "INIT" '(1 2 3)) ;; => ("INIT" "(FN INIT 1)" "(FN (FN INIT 1) 2)" "(FN (FN (FN INIT 1) 2) 3)")

-reductions-r-from (fn init list)

Return a list of fn's intermediate reductions across reversed list. That is, a list of the intermediate values of the accumulator when -reduce-r-from (which see) is called with the same arguments.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --reductions-r-from.

For other folds, see also -reductions and -reductions-r.

(-reductions-r-from #'max 0 '(2 1 4 3)) ;; => (4 4 4 3 0)
(-reductions-r-from #'* 1 '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (24 24 12 4 1)
(--reductions-r-from (format "(FN %d %s)" it acc) "INIT" '(1 2 3)) ;; => ("(FN 1 (FN 2 (FN 3 INIT)))" "(FN 2 (FN 3 INIT))" "(FN 3 INIT)" "INIT")

-reductions (fn list)

Return a list of fn's intermediate reductions across list. That is, a list of the intermediate values of the accumulator when -reduce (which see) is called with the same arguments.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --reductions.

For other folds, see also -reductions and -reductions-r.

(-reductions #'+ '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 3 6 10)
(-reductions #'* '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 2 6 24)
(--reductions (format "(FN %s %d)" acc it) '(1 2 3)) ;; => (1 "(FN 1 2)" "(FN (FN 1 2) 3)")

-reductions-r (fn list)

Return a list of fn's intermediate reductions across reversed list. That is, a list of the intermediate values of the accumulator when -reduce-r (which see) is called with the same arguments.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --reductions-r.

For other folds, see also -reductions-r-from and -reductions.

(-reductions-r #'+ '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (10 9 7 4)
(-reductions-r #'* '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (24 24 12 4)
(--reductions-r (format "(FN %d %s)" it acc) '(1 2 3)) ;; => ("(FN 1 (FN 2 3))" "(FN 2 3)" 3)

-count (pred list)

Counts the number of items in list where (pred item) is non-nil.

(-count 'even? '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => 2
(--count (< it 4) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => 3

-sum (list)

Return the sum of list.

(-sum ()) ;; => 0
(-sum '(1)) ;; => 1
(-sum '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => 10

-running-sum (list)

Return a list with running sums of items in list. list must be non-empty.

(-running-sum '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 3 6 10)
(-running-sum '(1)) ;; => (1)
(-running-sum ()) ;; Wrong type argument: consp, nil

-product (list)

Return the product of list.

(-product ()) ;; => 1
(-product '(1)) ;; => 1
(-product '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => 24

-running-product (list)

Return a list with running products of items in list. list must be non-empty.

(-running-product '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 2 6 24)
(-running-product '(1)) ;; => (1)
(-running-product ()) ;; Wrong type argument: consp, nil

-inits (list)

Return all prefixes of list.

(-inits '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (nil (1) (1 2) (1 2 3) (1 2 3 4))
(-inits nil) ;; => (nil)
(-inits '(1)) ;; => (nil (1))

-tails (list)

Return all suffixes of list

(-tails '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => ((1 2 3 4) (2 3 4) (3 4) (4) nil)
(-tails nil) ;; => (nil)
(-tails '(1)) ;; => ((1) nil)

-common-prefix (&rest lists)

Return the longest common prefix of lists.

(-common-prefix '(1)) ;; => (1)
(-common-prefix '(1 2) '(3 4) '(1 2)) ;; => ()
(-common-prefix '(1 2) '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (1 2)

-common-suffix (&rest lists)

Return the longest common suffix of lists.

(-common-suffix '(1)) ;; => (1)
(-common-suffix '(1 2) '(3 4) '(1 2)) ;; => ()
(-common-suffix '(1 2 3 4) '(2 3 4) '(3 4)) ;; => (3 4)

-min (list)

Return the smallest value from list of numbers or markers.

(-min '(0)) ;; => 0
(-min '(3 2 1)) ;; => 1
(-min '(1 2 3)) ;; => 1

-min-by (comparator list)

Take a comparison function comparator and a list and return the least element of the list by the comparison function.

See also combinator -on which can transform the values before comparing them.

(-min-by '> '(4 3 6 1)) ;; => 1
(--min-by (> (car it) (car other)) '((1 2 3) (2) (3 2))) ;; => (1 2 3)
(--min-by (> (length it) (length other)) '((1 2 3) (2) (3 2))) ;; => (2)

-max (list)

Return the largest value from list of numbers or markers.

(-max '(0)) ;; => 0
(-max '(3 2 1)) ;; => 3
(-max '(1 2 3)) ;; => 3

-max-by (comparator list)

Take a comparison function comparator and a list and return the greatest element of the list by the comparison function.

See also combinator -on which can transform the values before comparing them.

(-max-by '> '(4 3 6 1)) ;; => 6
(--max-by (> (car it) (car other)) '((1 2 3) (2) (3 2))) ;; => (3 2)
(--max-by (> (length it) (length other)) '((1 2 3) (2) (3 2))) ;; => (1 2 3)

Unfolding

Operations dual to reductions, building lists from a seed value rather than consuming a list to produce a single value.

-iterate (fun init n)

Return a list of iterated applications of fun to init.

This means a list of the form:

(`init` (`fun` `init`) (`fun` (`fun` `init`)) ...)

n is the length of the returned list.

(-iterate #'1+ 1 10) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)
(-iterate (lambda (x) (+ x x)) 2 5) ;; => (2 4 8 16 32)
(--iterate (* it it) 2 5) ;; => (2 4 16 256 65536)

-unfold (fun seed)

Build a list from seed using fun.

This is "dual" operation to -reduce-r: while -reduce-r consumes a list to produce a single value, -unfold takes a seed value and builds a (potentially infinite!) list.

fun should return nil to stop the generating process, or a cons (a . b), where a will be prepended to the result and b is the new seed.

(-unfold (lambda (x) (unless (= x 0) (cons x (1- x)))) 10) ;; => (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1)
(--unfold (when it (cons it (cdr it))) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => ((1 2 3 4) (2 3 4) (3 4) (4))
(--unfold (when it (cons it (butlast it))) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => ((1 2 3 4) (1 2 3) (1 2) (1))

Predicates

Reductions of one or more lists to a boolean value.

-any? (pred list)

Return t if (pred x) is non-nil for any x in list, else nil.

Alias: -any-p, -some?, -some-p

(-any? 'even? '(1 2 3)) ;; => t
(-any? 'even? '(1 3 5)) ;; => nil
(-any? 'null '(1 3 5)) ;; => nil

-all? (pred list)

Return t if (pred x) is non-nil for all x in list, else nil.

Alias: -all-p, -every?, -every-p

(-all? 'even? '(1 2 3)) ;; => nil
(-all? 'even? '(2 4 6)) ;; => t
(--all? (= 0 (% it 2)) '(2 4 6)) ;; => t

-none? (pred list)

Return t if (pred x) is nil for all x in list, else nil.

Alias: -none-p

(-none? 'even? '(1 2 3)) ;; => nil
(-none? 'even? '(1 3 5)) ;; => t
(--none? (= 0 (% it 2)) '(1 2 3)) ;; => nil

-only-some? (pred list)

Return t if at least one item of list matches pred and at least one item of list does not match pred. Return nil both if all items match the predicate or if none of the items match the predicate.

Alias: -only-some-p

(-only-some? 'even? '(1 2 3)) ;; => t
(-only-some? 'even? '(1 3 5)) ;; => nil
(-only-some? 'even? '(2 4 6)) ;; => nil

-contains? (list element)

Return non-nil if list contains element.

The test for equality is done with equal, or with -compare-fn if that's non-nil.

Alias: -contains-p

(-contains? '(1 2 3) 1) ;; => t
(-contains? '(1 2 3) 2) ;; => t
(-contains? '(1 2 3) 4) ;; => nil

-same-items? (list list2)

Return true if list and list2 has the same items.

The order of the elements in the lists does not matter.

Alias: -same-items-p

(-same-items? '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3)) ;; => t
(-same-items? '(1 2 3) '(3 2 1)) ;; => t
(-same-items? '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => nil

-is-prefix? (prefix list)

Return non-nil if prefix is a prefix of list.

Alias: -is-prefix-p.

(-is-prefix? '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => t
(-is-prefix? '(1 2 3 4 5) '(1 2 3)) ;; => nil
(-is-prefix? '(1 3) '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => nil

-is-suffix? (suffix list)

Return non-nil if suffix is a suffix of list.

Alias: -is-suffix-p.

(-is-suffix? '(3 4 5) '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => t
(-is-suffix? '(1 2 3 4 5) '(3 4 5)) ;; => nil
(-is-suffix? '(3 5) '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => nil

-is-infix? (infix list)

Return non-nil if infix is infix of list.

This operation runs in O(n^2) time

Alias: -is-infix-p

(-is-infix? '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => t
(-is-infix? '(2 3 4) '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => t
(-is-infix? '(3 4 5) '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => t

-cons-pair? (obj)

Return non-nil if obj is a true cons pair. That is, a cons (a . b) where b is not a list.

Alias: -cons-pair-p.

(-cons-pair? '(1 . 2)) ;; => t
(-cons-pair? '(1 2)) ;; => nil
(-cons-pair? '(1)) ;; => nil

Partitioning

Functions partitioning the input list into a list of lists.

-split-at (n list)

Split list into two sublists after the nth element. The result is a list of two elements (take drop) where take is a new list of the first n elements of list, and drop is the remaining elements of list (not a copy). take and drop are like the results of -take and -drop, respectively, but the split is done in a single list traversal.

(-split-at 3 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => ((1 2 3) (4 5))
(-split-at 17 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => ((1 2 3 4 5) nil)
(-split-at 0 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (nil (1 2 3 4 5))

-split-with (pred list)

Return a list of ((-take-while pred list) (-drop-while pred list)), in no more than one pass through the list.

(-split-with 'even? '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => (nil (1 2 3 4))
(-split-with 'even? '(2 4 5 6)) ;; => ((2 4) (5 6))
(--split-with (< it 4) '(1 2 3 4 3 2 1)) ;; => ((1 2 3) (4 3 2 1))

-split-on (item list)

Split the list each time item is found.

Unlike -partition-by, the item is discarded from the results. Empty lists are also removed from the result.

Comparison is done by equal.

See also -split-when

(-split-on '| '(Nil | Leaf a | Node [Tree a])) ;; => ((Nil) (Leaf a) (Node [Tree a]))
(-split-on ':endgroup '("a" "b" :endgroup "c" :endgroup "d" "e")) ;; => (("a" "b") ("c") ("d" "e"))
(-split-on ':endgroup '("a" "b" :endgroup :endgroup "d" "e")) ;; => (("a" "b") ("d" "e"))

-split-when (fn list)

Split the list on each element where fn returns non-nil.

Unlike -partition-by, the "matched" element is discarded from the results. Empty lists are also removed from the result.

This function can be thought of as a generalization of split-string.

(-split-when 'even? '(1 2 3 4 5 6)) ;; => ((1) (3) (5))
(-split-when 'even? '(1 2 3 4 6 8 9)) ;; => ((1) (3) (9))
(--split-when (memq it '(&optional &rest)) '(a b &optional c d &rest args)) ;; => ((a b) (c d) (args))

-separate (pred list)

Return a list of ((-filter pred list) (-remove pred list)), in one pass through the list.

(-separate (lambda (num) (= 0 (% num 2))) '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)) ;; => ((2 4 6) (1 3 5 7))
(--separate (< it 5) '(3 7 5 9 3 2 1 4 6)) ;; => ((3 3 2 1 4) (7 5 9 6))
(-separate 'cdr '((1 2) (1) (1 2 3) (4))) ;; => (((1 2) (1 2 3)) ((1) (4)))

-partition (n list)

Return a new list with the items in list grouped into n-sized sublists. If there are not enough items to make the last group n-sized, those items are discarded.

(-partition 2 '(1 2 3 4 5 6)) ;; => ((1 2) (3 4) (5 6))
(-partition 2 '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)) ;; => ((1 2) (3 4) (5 6))
(-partition 3 '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)) ;; => ((1 2 3) (4 5 6))

-partition-all (n list)

Return a new list with the items in list grouped into n-sized sublists. The last group may contain less than n items.

(-partition-all 2 '(1 2 3 4 5 6)) ;; => ((1 2) (3 4) (5 6))
(-partition-all 2 '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)) ;; => ((1 2) (3 4) (5 6) (7))
(-partition-all 3 '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)) ;; => ((1 2 3) (4 5 6) (7))

-partition-in-steps (n step list)

Return a new list with the items in list grouped into n-sized sublists at offsets step apart. If there are not enough items to make the last group n-sized, those items are discarded.

(-partition-in-steps 2 1 '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => ((1 2) (2 3) (3 4))
(-partition-in-steps 3 2 '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => ((1 2 3))
(-partition-in-steps 3 2 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => ((1 2 3) (3 4 5))

-partition-all-in-steps (n step list)

Return a new list with the items in list grouped into n-sized sublists at offsets step apart. The last groups may contain less than n items.

(-partition-all-in-steps 2 1 '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => ((1 2) (2 3) (3 4) (4))
(-partition-all-in-steps 3 2 '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => ((1 2 3) (3 4))
(-partition-all-in-steps 3 2 '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => ((1 2 3) (3 4 5) (5))

-partition-by (fn list)

Apply fn to each item in list, splitting it each time fn returns a new value.

(-partition-by 'even? ()) ;; => ()
(-partition-by 'even? '(1 1 2 2 2 3 4 6 8)) ;; => ((1 1) (2 2 2) (3) (4 6 8))
(--partition-by (< it 3) '(1 2 3 4 3 2 1)) ;; => ((1 2) (3 4 3) (2 1))

-partition-by-header (fn list)

Apply fn to the first item in list. That is the header value. Apply fn to each item in list, splitting it each time fn returns the header value, but only after seeing at least one other value (the body).

(--partition-by-header (= it 1) '(1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 4)) ;; => ((1 2 3) (1 2) (1 2 3 4))
(--partition-by-header (> it 0) '(1 2 0 1 0 1 2 3 0)) ;; => ((1 2 0) (1 0) (1 2 3 0))
(-partition-by-header 'even? '(2 1 1 1 4 1 3 5 6 6 1)) ;; => ((2 1 1 1) (4 1 3 5) (6 6 1))

-partition-after-pred (pred list)

Partition directly after each time pred is true on an element of list.

(-partition-after-pred #'booleanp ()) ;; => ()
(-partition-after-pred #'booleanp '(t t)) ;; => ((t) (t))
(-partition-after-pred #'booleanp '(0 0 t t 0 t)) ;; => ((0 0 t) (t) (0 t))

-partition-before-pred (pred list)

Partition directly before each time pred is true on an element of list.

(-partition-before-pred #'booleanp ()) ;; => ()
(-partition-before-pred #'booleanp '(0 t)) ;; => ((0) (t))
(-partition-before-pred #'booleanp '(0 0 t 0 t t)) ;; => ((0 0) (t 0) (t) (t))

-partition-before-item (item list)

Partition directly before each time item appears in list.

(-partition-before-item 3 ()) ;; => ()
(-partition-before-item 3 '(1)) ;; => ((1))
(-partition-before-item 3 '(3)) ;; => ((3))

-partition-after-item (item list)

Partition directly after each time item appears in list.

(-partition-after-item 3 ()) ;; => ()
(-partition-after-item 3 '(1)) ;; => ((1))
(-partition-after-item 3 '(3)) ;; => ((3))

-group-by (fn list)

Separate list into an alist whose keys are fn applied to the elements of list. Keys are compared by equal.

(-group-by 'even? ()) ;; => ()
(-group-by 'even? '(1 1 2 2 2 3 4 6 8)) ;; => ((nil 1 1 3) (t 2 2 2 4 6 8))
(--group-by (car (split-string it "/")) '("a/b" "c/d" "a/e")) ;; => (("a" "a/b" "a/e") ("c" "c/d"))

Indexing

Functions retrieving or sorting based on list indices and related predicates.

-elem-index (elem list)

Return the index of the first element in the given list which is equal to the query element elem, or nil if there is no such element.

(-elem-index 2 '(6 7 8 2 3 4)) ;; => 3
(-elem-index "bar" '("foo" "bar" "baz")) ;; => 1
(-elem-index '(1 2) '((3) (5 6) (1 2) nil)) ;; => 2

-elem-indices (elem list)

Return the indices of all elements in list equal to the query element elem, in ascending order.

(-elem-indices 2 '(6 7 8 2 3 4 2 1)) ;; => (3 6)
(-elem-indices "bar" '("foo" "bar" "baz")) ;; => (1)
(-elem-indices '(1 2) '((3) (1 2) (5 6) (1 2) nil)) ;; => (1 3)

-find-index (pred list)

Take a predicate pred and a list and return the index of the first element in the list satisfying the predicate, or nil if there is no such element.

See also -first.

(-find-index 'even? '(2 4 1 6 3 3 5 8)) ;; => 0
(--find-index (< 5 it) '(2 4 1 6 3 3 5 8)) ;; => 3
(-find-index (-partial 'string-lessp "baz") '("bar" "foo" "baz")) ;; => 1

-find-last-index (pred list)

Take a predicate pred and a list and return the index of the last element in the list satisfying the predicate, or nil if there is no such element.

See also -last.

(-find-last-index 'even? '(2 4 1 6 3 3 5 8)) ;; => 7
(--find-last-index (< 5 it) '(2 7 1 6 3 8 5 2)) ;; => 5
(-find-last-index (-partial 'string-lessp "baz") '("q" "foo" "baz")) ;; => 1

-find-indices (pred list)

Return the indices of all elements in list satisfying the predicate pred, in ascending order.

(-find-indices 'even? '(2 4 1 6 3 3 5 8)) ;; => (0 1 3 7)
(--find-indices (< 5 it) '(2 4 1 6 3 3 5 8)) ;; => (3 7)
(-find-indices (-partial 'string-lessp "baz") '("bar" "foo" "baz")) ;; => (1)

-grade-up (comparator list)

Grade elements of list using comparator relation. This yields a permutation vector such that applying this permutation to list sorts it in ascending order.

(-grade-up #'< '(3 1 4 2 1 3 3)) ;; => (1 4 3 0 5 6 2)
(let ((l '(3 1 4 2 1 3 3))) (-select-by-indices (-grade-up #'< l) l)) ;; => (1 1 2 3 3 3 4)

-grade-down (comparator list)

Grade elements of list using comparator relation. This yields a permutation vector such that applying this permutation to list sorts it in descending order.

(-grade-down #'< '(3 1 4 2 1 3 3)) ;; => (2 0 5 6 3 1 4)
(let ((l '(3 1 4 2 1 3 3))) (-select-by-indices (-grade-down #'< l) l)) ;; => (4 3 3 3 2 1 1)

Set operations

Operations pretending lists are sets.

-union (list list2)

Return a new list containing the elements of list and elements of list2 that are not in list. The test for equality is done with equal, or with -compare-fn if that's non-nil.

(-union '(1 2 3) '(3 4 5)) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5)
(-union '(1 2 3 4) ()) ;; => (1 2 3 4)
(-union '(1 1 2 2) '(3 2 1)) ;; => (1 1 2 2 3)

-difference (list list2)

Return a new list with only the members of list that are not in list2. The test for equality is done with equal, or with -compare-fn if that's non-nil.

(-difference () ()) ;; => ()
(-difference '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6)) ;; => (1 2 3)
(-difference '(1 2 3 4) '(3 4 5 6)) ;; => (1 2)

-intersection (list list2)

Return a new list containing only the elements that are members of both list and list2. The test for equality is done with equal, or with -compare-fn if that's non-nil.

(-intersection () ()) ;; => ()
(-intersection '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6)) ;; => ()
(-intersection '(1 2 3 4) '(3 4 5 6)) ;; => (3 4)

-powerset (list)

Return the power set of list.

(-powerset ()) ;; => (nil)
(-powerset '(x y z)) ;; => ((x y z) (x y) (x z) (x) (y z) (y) (z) nil)

-permutations (list)

Return the permutations of list.

(-permutations ()) ;; => (nil)
(-permutations '(1 2)) ;; => ((1 2) (2 1))
(-permutations '(a b c)) ;; => ((a b c) (a c b) (b a c) (b c a) (c a b) (c b a))

-distinct (list)

Return a new list with all duplicates removed. The test for equality is done with equal, or with -compare-fn if that's non-nil.

Alias: -uniq

(-distinct ()) ;; => ()
(-distinct '(1 2 2 4)) ;; => (1 2 4)
(-distinct '(t t t)) ;; => (t)

Other list operations

Other list functions not fit to be classified elsewhere.

-rotate (n list)

Rotate list n places to the right. With n negative, rotate to the left. The time complexity is O(n).

(-rotate 3 '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)) ;; => (5 6 7 1 2 3 4)
(-rotate -3 '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)) ;; => (4 5 6 7 1 2 3)
(-rotate 16 '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)) ;; => (6 7 1 2 3 4 5)

-repeat (n x)

Return a new list of length n with each element being x. Return nil if n is less than 1.

(-repeat 3 :a) ;; => (:a :a :a)
(-repeat 1 :a) ;; => (:a)
(-repeat 0 :a) ;; => nil

-cons* (&rest args)

Make a new list from the elements of args. The last 2 elements of args are used as the final cons of the result, so if the final element of args is not a list, the result is a dotted list. With no args, return nil.

(-cons* 1 2) ;; => (1 . 2)
(-cons* 1 2 3) ;; => (1 2 . 3)
(-cons* 1) ;; => 1

-snoc (list elem &rest elements)

Append elem to the end of the list.

This is like cons, but operates on the end of list.

If elements is non nil, append these to the list as well.

(-snoc '(1 2 3) 4) ;; => (1 2 3 4)
(-snoc '(1 2 3) 4 5 6) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5 6)
(-snoc '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6)) ;; => (1 2 3 (4 5 6))

-interpose (sep list)

Return a new list of all elements in list separated by sep.

(-interpose "-" ()) ;; => ()
(-interpose "-" '("a")) ;; => ("a")
(-interpose "-" '("a" "b" "c")) ;; => ("a" "-" "b" "-" "c")

-interleave (&rest lists)

Return a new list of the first item in each list, then the second etc.

(-interleave '(1 2) '("a" "b")) ;; => (1 "a" 2 "b")
(-interleave '(1 2) '("a" "b") '("A" "B")) ;; => (1 "a" "A" 2 "b" "B")
(-interleave '(1 2 3) '("a" "b")) ;; => (1 "a" 2 "b")

-iota (count &optional start step)

Return a list containing count numbers. Starts from start and adds step each time. The default start is zero, the default step is 1. This function takes its name from the corresponding primitive in the apl language.

(-iota 6) ;; => (0 1 2 3 4 5)
(-iota 4 2.5 -2) ;; => (2.5 0.5 -1.5 -3.5)
(-iota -1) ;; Wrong type argument: natnump, -1

-zip-with (fn list1 list2)

Zip the two lists list1 and list2 using a function fn. This function is applied pairwise taking as first argument element of list1 and as second argument element of list2 at corresponding position.

The anaphoric form --zip-with binds the elements from list1 as symbol it, and the elements from list2 as symbol other.

(-zip-with '+ '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6)) ;; => (5 7 9)
(-zip-with 'cons '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6)) ;; => ((1 . 4) (2 . 5) (3 . 6))
(--zip-with (concat it " and " other) '("Batman" "Jekyll") '("Robin" "Hyde")) ;; => ("Batman and Robin" "Jekyll and Hyde")

-zip (&rest lists)

Zip lists together. Group the head of each list, followed by the second elements of each list, and so on. The lengths of the returned groupings are equal to the length of the shortest input list.

If two lists are provided as arguments, return the groupings as a list of cons cells. Otherwise, return the groupings as a list of lists.

Use -zip-lists if you need the return value to always be a list of lists.

Alias: -zip-pair

See also: -zip-lists

(-zip '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6)) ;; => ((1 . 4) (2 . 5) (3 . 6))
(-zip '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6 7)) ;; => ((1 . 4) (2 . 5) (3 . 6))
(-zip '(1 2) '(3 4 5) '(6)) ;; => ((1 3 6))

-zip-lists (&rest lists)

Zip lists together. Group the head of each list, followed by the second elements of each list, and so on. The lengths of the returned groupings are equal to the length of the shortest input list.

The return value is always list of lists, which is a difference from -zip-pair which returns a cons-cell in case two input lists are provided.

See also: -zip

(-zip-lists '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6)) ;; => ((1 4) (2 5) (3 6))
(-zip-lists '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6 7)) ;; => ((1 4) (2 5) (3 6))
(-zip-lists '(1 2) '(3 4 5) '(6)) ;; => ((1 3 6))

-zip-fill (fill-value &rest lists)

Zip lists, with fill-value padded onto the shorter lists. The lengths of the returned groupings are equal to the length of the longest input list.

(-zip-fill 0 '(1 2 3 4 5) '(6 7 8 9)) ;; => ((1 . 6) (2 . 7) (3 . 8) (4 . 9) (5 . 0))

-unzip (lists)

Unzip lists.

This works just like -zip but takes a list of lists instead of a variable number of arguments, such that

(-unzip (-zip `l1` `l2` `l3` ...))

is identity (given that the lists are the same length).

Note in particular that calling this on a list of two lists will return a list of cons-cells such that the above identity works.

See also: -zip

(-unzip (-zip '(1 2 3) '(a b c) '("e" "f" "g"))) ;; => ((1 2 3) (a b c) ("e" "f" "g"))
(-unzip '((1 2) (3 4) (5 6) (7 8) (9 10))) ;; => ((1 3 5 7 9) (2 4 6 8 10))
(-unzip '((1 2) (3 4))) ;; => ((1 . 3) (2 . 4))

-cycle (list)

Return an infinite circular copy of list. The returned list cycles through the elements of list and repeats from the beginning.

(-take 5 (-cycle '(1 2 3))) ;; => (1 2 3 1 2)
(-take 7 (-cycle '(1 "and" 3))) ;; => (1 "and" 3 1 "and" 3 1)
(-zip (-cycle '(1 2 3)) '(1 2)) ;; => ((1 . 1) (2 . 2))

-pad (fill-value &rest lists)

Appends fill-value to the end of each list in lists such that they will all have the same length.

(-pad 0 ()) ;; => (nil)
(-pad 0 '(1)) ;; => ((1))
(-pad 0 '(1 2 3) '(4 5)) ;; => ((1 2 3) (4 5 0))

-table (fn &rest lists)

Compute outer product of lists using function fn.

The function fn should have the same arity as the number of supplied lists.

The outer product is computed by applying fn to all possible combinations created by taking one element from each list in order. The dimension of the result is (length lists).

See also: -table-flat

(-table '* '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3)) ;; => ((1 2 3) (2 4 6) (3 6 9))
(-table (lambda (a b) (-sum (-zip-with '* a b))) '((1 2) (3 4)) '((1 3) (2 4))) ;; => ((7 15) (10 22))
(apply '-table 'list (-repeat 3 '(1 2))) ;; => ((((1 1 1) (2 1 1)) ((1 2 1) (2 2 1))) (((1 1 2) (2 1 2)) ((1 2 2) (2 2 2))))

-table-flat (fn &rest lists)

Compute flat outer product of lists using function fn.

The function fn should have the same arity as the number of supplied lists.

The outer product is computed by applying fn to all possible combinations created by taking one element from each list in order. The results are flattened, ignoring the tensor structure of the result. This is equivalent to calling:

(-flatten-n (1- (length lists)) (apply '-table fn lists))

but the implementation here is much more efficient.

See also: -flatten-n, -table

(-table-flat 'list '(1 2 3) '(a b c)) ;; => ((1 a) (2 a) (3 a) (1 b) (2 b) (3 b) (1 c) (2 c) (3 c))
(-table-flat '* '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3)) ;; => (1 2 3 2 4 6 3 6 9)
(apply '-table-flat 'list (-repeat 3 '(1 2))) ;; => ((1 1 1) (2 1 1) (1 2 1) (2 2 1) (1 1 2) (2 1 2) (1 2 2) (2 2 2))

-first (pred list)

Return the first item in list for which pred returns non-nil. Return nil if no such element is found. To get the first item in the list no questions asked, use car.

Alias: -find.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --first.

(-first #'natnump '(-1 0 1)) ;; => 0
(-first #'null '(1 2 3)) ;; => nil
(--first (> it 2) '(1 2 3)) ;; => 3

-some (pred list)

Return (pred x) for the first list item where (pred x) is non-nil, else nil.

Alias: -any.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --some.

(-some (lambda (s) (string-match-p "x" s)) '("foo" "axe" "xor")) ;; => 1
(-some (lambda (s) (string-match-p "x" s)) '("foo" "bar" "baz")) ;; => nil
(--some (member 'foo it) '((foo bar) (baz))) ;; => (foo bar)

-last (pred list)

Return the last x in list where (pred x) is non-nil, else nil.

(-last 'even? '(1 2 3 4 5 6 3 3 3)) ;; => 6
(-last 'even? '(1 3 7 5 9)) ;; => nil
(--last (> (length it) 3) '("a" "looong" "word" "and" "short" "one")) ;; => "short"

-first-item (list)

Return the first item of list, or nil on an empty list.

See also: -second-item, -last-item.

(-first-item '(1 2 3)) ;; => 1
(-first-item nil) ;; => nil
(let ((list (list 1 2 3))) (setf (-first-item list) 5) list) ;; => (5 2 3)

-second-item (list)

Return the second item of list, or nil if list is too short.

See also: -third-item.

(-second-item '(1 2 3)) ;; => 2
(-second-item nil) ;; => nil

-third-item (list)

Return the third item of list, or nil if list is too short.

See also: -fourth-item.

(-third-item '(1 2 3)) ;; => 3
(-third-item nil) ;; => nil

-fourth-item (list)

Return the fourth item of list, or nil if list is too short.

See also: -fifth-item.

(-fourth-item '(1 2 3 4)) ;; => 4
(-fourth-item nil) ;; => nil

-fifth-item (list)

Return the fifth item of list, or nil if list is too short.

See also: -last-item.

(-fifth-item '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => 5
(-fifth-item nil) ;; => nil

-last-item (list)

Return the last item of list, or nil on an empty list.

(-last-item '(1 2 3)) ;; => 3
(-last-item nil) ;; => nil
(let ((list (list 1 2 3))) (setf (-last-item list) 5) list) ;; => (1 2 5)

-butlast (list)

Return a list of all items in list except for the last.

(-butlast '(1 2 3)) ;; => (1 2)
(-butlast '(1 2)) ;; => (1)
(-butlast '(1)) ;; => nil

-sort (comparator list)

Sort list, stably, comparing elements using comparator. Return the sorted list. list is not modified by side effects. comparator is called with two elements of list, and should return non-nil if the first element should sort before the second.

(-sort '< '(3 1 2)) ;; => (1 2 3)
(-sort '> '(3 1 2)) ;; => (3 2 1)
(--sort (< it other) '(3 1 2)) ;; => (1 2 3)

-list (arg)

Ensure arg is a list. If arg is already a list, return it as is (not a copy). Otherwise, return a new list with arg as its only element.

Another supported calling convention is (-list &rest args). In this case, if arg is not a list, a new list with all of args as elements is returned. This use is supported for backward compatibility and is otherwise deprecated.

(-list 1) ;; => (1)
(-list ()) ;; => ()
(-list '(1 2 3)) ;; => (1 2 3)

-fix (fn list)

Compute the (least) fixpoint of fn with initial input list.

fn is called at least once, results are compared with equal.

(-fix (lambda (l) (-non-nil (--mapcat (-split-at (/ (length it) 2) it) l))) '((1 2 3))) ;; => ((1) (2) (3))
(let ((l '((starwars scifi) (jedi starwars warrior)))) (--fix (-uniq (--mapcat (cons it (cdr (assq it l))) it)) '(jedi book))) ;; => (jedi starwars warrior scifi book)

Tree operations

Functions pretending lists are trees.

-tree-seq (branch children tree)

Return a sequence of the nodes in tree, in depth-first search order.

branch is a predicate of one argument that returns non-nil if the passed argument is a branch, that is, a node that can have children.

children is a function of one argument that returns the children of the passed branch node.

Non-branch nodes are simply copied.

(-tree-seq 'listp 'identity '(1 (2 3) 4 (5 (6 7)))) ;; => ((1 (2 3) 4 (5 (6 7))) 1 (2 3) 2 3 4 (5 (6 7)) 5 (6 7) 6 7)
(-tree-seq 'listp 'reverse '(1 (2 3) 4 (5 (6 7)))) ;; => ((1 (2 3) 4 (5 (6 7))) (5 (6 7)) (6 7) 7 6 5 4 (2 3) 3 2 1)
(--tree-seq (vectorp it) (append it nil) [1 [2 3] 4 [5 [6 7]]]) ;; => ([1 [2 3] 4 [5 [6 7]]] 1 [2 3] 2 3 4 [5 [6 7]] 5 [6 7] 6 7)

-tree-map (fn tree)

Apply fn to each element of tree while preserving the tree structure.

(-tree-map '1+ '(1 (2 3) (4 (5 6) 7))) ;; => (2 (3 4) (5 (6 7) 8))
(-tree-map '(lambda (x) (cons x (expt 2 x))) '(1 (2 3) 4)) ;; => ((1 . 2) ((2 . 4) (3 . 8)) (4 . 16))
(--tree-map (length it) '("<body>" ("<p>" "text" "</p>") "</body>")) ;; => (6 (3 4 4) 7)

-tree-map-nodes (pred fun tree)

Call fun on each node of tree that satisfies pred.

If pred returns nil, continue descending down this node. If pred returns non-nil, apply fun to this node and do not descend further.

(-tree-map-nodes 'vectorp (lambda (x) (-sum (append x nil))) '(1 [2 3] 4 (5 [6 7] 8))) ;; => (1 5 4 (5 13 8))
(-tree-map-nodes 'keywordp (lambda (x) (symbol-name x)) '(1 :foo 4 ((5 6 :bar) :baz 8))) ;; => (1 ":foo" 4 ((5 6 ":bar") ":baz" 8))
(--tree-map-nodes (eq (car-safe it) 'add-mode) (-concat it (list :mode 'emacs-lisp-mode)) '(with-mode emacs-lisp-mode (foo bar) (add-mode a b) (baz (add-mode c d)))) ;; => (with-mode emacs-lisp-mode (foo bar) (add-mode a b :mode emacs-lisp-mode) (baz (add-mode c d :mode emacs-lisp-mode)))

-tree-reduce (fn tree)

Use fn to reduce elements of list tree. If elements of tree are lists themselves, apply the reduction recursively.

fn is first applied to first element of the list and second element, then on this result and third element from the list etc.

See -reduce-r for how exactly are lists of zero or one element handled.

(-tree-reduce '+ '(1 (2 3) (4 5))) ;; => 15
(-tree-reduce 'concat '("strings" (" on" " various") ((" levels")))) ;; => "strings on various levels"
(--tree-reduce (cond ((stringp it) (concat it " " acc)) (t (let ((sn (symbol-name it))) (concat "<" sn ">" acc "</" sn ">")))) '(body (p "some words") (div "more" (b "bold") "words"))) ;; => "<body><p>some words</p> <div>more <b>bold</b> words</div></body>"

-tree-reduce-from (fn init-value tree)

Use fn to reduce elements of list tree. If elements of tree are lists themselves, apply the reduction recursively.

fn is first applied to init-value and first element of the list, then on this result and second element from the list etc.

The initial value is ignored on cons pairs as they always contain two elements.

(-tree-reduce-from '+ 1 '(1 (1 1) ((1)))) ;; => 8
(--tree-reduce-from (-concat acc (list it)) nil '(1 (2 3 (4 5)) (6 7))) ;; => ((7 6) ((5 4) 3 2) 1)

-tree-mapreduce (fn folder tree)

Apply fn to each element of tree, and make a list of the results. If elements of tree are lists themselves, apply fn recursively to elements of these nested lists.

Then reduce the resulting lists using folder and initial value init-value. See -reduce-r-from.

This is the same as calling -tree-reduce after -tree-map but is twice as fast as it only traverse the structure once.

(-tree-mapreduce 'list 'append '(1 (2 (3 4) (5 6)) (7 (8 9)))) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
(--tree-mapreduce 1 (+ it acc) '(1 (2 (4 9) (2 1)) (7 (4 3)))) ;; => 9
(--tree-mapreduce 0 (max acc (1+ it)) '(1 (2 (4 9) (2 1)) (7 (4 3)))) ;; => 3

-tree-mapreduce-from (fn folder init-value tree)

Apply fn to each element of tree, and make a list of the results. If elements of tree are lists themselves, apply fn recursively to elements of these nested lists.

Then reduce the resulting lists using folder and initial value init-value. See -reduce-r-from.

This is the same as calling -tree-reduce-from after -tree-map but is twice as fast as it only traverse the structure once.

(-tree-mapreduce-from 'identity '* 1 '(1 (2 (3 4) (5 6)) (7 (8 9)))) ;; => 362880
(--tree-mapreduce-from (+ it it) (cons it acc) nil '(1 (2 (4 9) (2 1)) (7 (4 3)))) ;; => (2 (4 (8 18) (4 2)) (14 (8 6)))
(concat "{" (--tree-mapreduce-from (cond ((-cons-pair? it) (concat (symbol-name (car it)) " -> " (symbol-name (cdr it)))) (t (concat (symbol-name it) " : {"))) (concat it (unless (or (equal acc "}") (equal (substring it (1- (length it))) "{")) ", ") acc) "}" '((elisp-mode (foo (bar . booze)) (baz . qux)) (c-mode (foo . bla) (bum . bam))))) ;; => "{elisp-mode : {foo : {bar -> booze}, baz -> qux}, c-mode : {foo -> bla, bum -> bam}}"

-clone (list)

Create a deep copy of list. The new list has the same elements and structure but all cons are replaced with new ones. This is useful when you need to clone a structure such as plist or alist.

(let* ((a '(1 2 3)) (b (-clone a))) (nreverse a) b) ;; => (1 2 3)

Threading macros

Macros that conditionally combine sequential forms for brevity or readability.

-> (x &optional form &rest more)

Thread the expr through the forms. Insert x as the second item in the first form, making a list of it if it is not a list already. If there are more forms, insert the first form as the second item in second form, etc.

(-> '(2 3 5)) ;; => (2 3 5)
(-> '(2 3 5) (append '(8 13))) ;; => (2 3 5 8 13)
(-> '(2 3 5) (append '(8 13)) (-slice 1 -1)) ;; => (3 5 8)

->> (x &optional form &rest more)

Thread the expr through the forms. Insert x as the last item in the first form, making a list of it if it is not a list already. If there are more forms, insert the first form as the last item in second form, etc.

(->> '(1 2 3) (-map 'square)) ;; => (1 4 9)
(->> '(1 2 3) (-map 'square) (-remove 'even?)) ;; => (1 9)
(->> '(1 2 3) (-map 'square) (-reduce '+)) ;; => 14

--> (x &rest forms)

Starting with the value of x, thread each expression through forms.

Insert x at the position signified by the symbol it in the first form. If there are more forms, insert the first form at the position signified by it in in second form, etc.

(--> "def" (concat "abc" it "ghi")) ;; => "abcdefghi"
(--> "def" (concat "abc" it "ghi") (upcase it)) ;; => "ABCDEFGHI"
(--> "def" (concat "abc" it "ghi") upcase) ;; => "ABCDEFGHI"

-as-> (value variable &rest forms)

Starting with value, thread variable through forms.

In the first form, bind variable to value. In the second form, bind variable to the result of the first form, and so forth.

(-as-> 3 my-var (1+ my-var) (list my-var) (mapcar (lambda (ele) (* 2 ele)) my-var)) ;; => (8)
(-as-> 3 my-var 1+) ;; => 4
(-as-> 3 my-var) ;; => 3

-some-> (x &optional form &rest more)

When expr is non-nil, thread it through the first form (via ->), and when that result is non-nil, through the next form, etc.

(-some-> '(2 3 5)) ;; => (2 3 5)
(-some-> 5 square) ;; => 25
(-some-> 5 even? square) ;; => nil

-some->> (x &optional form &rest more)

When expr is non-nil, thread it through the first form (via ->>), and when that result is non-nil, through the next form, etc.

(-some->> '(1 2 3) (-map 'square)) ;; => (1 4 9)
(-some->> '(1 3 5) (-last 'even?) (+ 100)) ;; => nil
(-some->> '(2 4 6) (-last 'even?) (+ 100)) ;; => 106

-some--> (expr &rest forms)

Thread expr through forms via -->, while the result is non-nil. When expr evaluates to non-nil, thread the result through the first of forms, and when that result is non-nil, thread it through the next form, etc.

(-some--> "def" (concat "abc" it "ghi")) ;; => "abcdefghi"
(-some--> nil (concat "abc" it "ghi")) ;; => nil
(-some--> '(0 1) (-remove #'natnump it) (append it it) (-map #'1+ it)) ;; => ()

-doto (init &rest forms)

Evaluate init and pass it as argument to forms with ->. The result of evaluating init is threaded through each of forms individually using ->, which see. The return value is result, which forms may have modified by side effect.

(-doto (list 1 2 3) pop pop) ;; => (3)
(-doto (cons 1 2) (setcar 3) (setcdr 4)) ;; => (3 . 4)
(gethash 'k (--doto (make-hash-table) (puthash 'k 'v it))) ;; => v

Binding

Macros that combine let and let* with destructuring and flow control.

-when-let ((var val) &rest body)

If val evaluates to non-nil, bind it to var and execute body.

Note: binding is done according to -let.

(-when-let (match-index (string-match "d" "abcd")) (+ match-index 2)) ;; => 5
(-when-let ((&plist :foo foo) (list :foo "foo")) foo) ;; => "foo"
(-when-let ((&plist :foo foo) (list :bar "bar")) foo) ;; => nil

-when-let* (vars-vals &rest body)

If all vals evaluate to true, bind them to their corresponding vars and execute body. vars-vals should be a list of (var val) pairs.

Note: binding is done according to -let*. vals are evaluated sequentially, and evaluation stops after the first nil val is encountered.

(-when-let* ((x 5) (y 3) (z (+ y 4))) (+ x y z)) ;; => 15
(-when-let* ((x 5) (y nil) (z 7)) (+ x y z)) ;; => nil

-if-let ((var val) then &rest else)

If val evaluates to non-nil, bind it to var and do then, otherwise do else.

Note: binding is done according to -let.

(-if-let (match-index (string-match "d" "abc")) (+ match-index 3) 7) ;; => 7
(--if-let (even? 4) it nil) ;; => t

-if-let* (vars-vals then &rest else)

If all vals evaluate to true, bind them to their corresponding vars and do then, otherwise do else. vars-vals should be a list of (var val) pairs.

Note: binding is done according to -let*. vals are evaluated sequentially, and evaluation stops after the first nil val is encountered.

(-if-let* ((x 5) (y 3) (z 7)) (+ x y z) "foo") ;; => 15
(-if-let* ((x 5) (y nil) (z 7)) (+ x y z) "foo") ;; => "foo"
(-if-let* (((_ _ x) '(nil nil 7))) x) ;; => 7

-let (varlist &rest body)

Bind variables according to varlist then eval body.

varlist is a list of lists of the form (pattern source). Each pattern is matched against the source "structurally". source is only evaluated once for each pattern. Each pattern is matched recursively, and can therefore contain sub-patterns which are matched against corresponding sub-expressions of source.

All the SOURCEs are evalled before any symbols are bound (i.e. "in parallel").

If varlist only contains one (pattern source) element, you can optionally specify it using a vector and discarding the outer-most parens. Thus

(-let ((`pattern` `source`)) ...)

becomes

(-let [`pattern` `source`] ...).

-let uses a convention of not binding places (symbols) starting with _ whenever it's possible. You can use this to skip over entries you don't care about. However, this is not always possible (as a result of implementation) and these symbols might get bound to undefined values.

Following is the overview of supported patterns. Remember that patterns can be matched recursively, so every a, b, aK in the following can be a matching construct and not necessarily a symbol/variable.

Symbol:

a - bind the `source` to `a`.  This is just like regular `let`.

Conses and lists:

(a) - bind `car` of cons/list to `a`

(a . b) - bind car of cons to `a` and `cdr` to `b`

(a b) - bind car of list to `a` and `cadr` to `b`

(a1 a2 a3 ...) - bind 0th car of list to `a1`, 1st to `a2`, 2nd to `a3`...

(a1 a2 a3 ... aN . rest) - as above, but bind the `n`th cdr to `rest`.

Vectors:

[a] - bind 0th element of a non-list sequence to `a` (works with
      vectors, strings, bit arrays...)

[a1 a2 a3 ...] - bind 0th element of non-list sequence to `a0`, 1st to
                 `a1`, 2nd to `a2`, ...
                 If the `pattern` is shorter than `source`, the values at
                 places not in `pattern` are ignored.
                 If the `pattern` is longer than `source`, an `error` is
                 thrown.

[a1 a2 a3 ... &rest rest] - as above, but bind the rest of
                            the sequence to `rest`.  This is
                            conceptually the same as improper list
                            matching (a1 a2 ... aN . rest)

Key/value stores:

(&plist key0 a0 ... keyN aN) - bind value mapped by keyK in the
                               `source` plist to aK.  If the
                               value is not found, aK is nil.
                               Uses `plist-get` to fetch values.

(&alist key0 a0 ... keyN aN) - bind value mapped by keyK in the
                               `source` alist to aK.  If the
                               value is not found, aK is nil.
                               Uses `assoc` to fetch values.

(&hash key0 a0 ... keyN aN) - bind value mapped by keyK in the
                              `source` hash table to aK.  If the
                              value is not found, aK is nil.
                              Uses `gethash` to fetch values.

Further, special keyword &keys supports "inline" matching of plist-like key-value pairs, similarly to &keys keyword of cl-defun.

(a1 a2 ... aN &keys key1 b1 ... keyN bK)

This binds n values from the list to a1 ... aN, then interprets the cdr as a plist (see key/value matching above).

a shorthand notation for kv-destructuring exists which allows the patterns be optionally left out and derived from the key name in the following fashion:

• a key :foo is converted into foo pattern,
• a key 'bar is converted into bar pattern,
• a key "baz" is converted into baz pattern.

That is, the entire value under the key is bound to the derived variable without any further destructuring.

This is possible only when the form following the key is not a valid pattern (i.e. not a symbol, a cons cell or a vector). Otherwise the matching proceeds as usual and in case of an invalid spec fails with an error.

Thus the patterns are normalized as follows:

 ;; derive all the missing patterns
 (&plist :foo 'bar "baz") => (&plist :foo foo 'bar bar "baz" baz)

 ;; we can specify some but not others
 (&plist :foo 'bar explicit-bar) => (&plist :foo foo 'bar explicit-bar)

 ;; nothing happens, we store :foo in x
 (&plist :foo x) => (&plist :foo x)

 ;; nothing happens, we match recursively
 (&plist :foo (a b c)) => (&plist :foo (a b c))

You can name the source using the syntax symbol &as pattern. This syntax works with lists (proper or improper), vectors and all types of maps.

(list &as a b c) (list 1 2 3)

binds a to 1, b to 2, c to 3 and list to (1 2 3).

Similarly:

(bounds &as beg . end) (cons 1 2)

binds beg to 1, end to 2 and bounds to (1 . 2).

(items &as first . rest) (list 1 2 3)

binds first to 1, rest to (2 3) and items to (1 2 3)

[vect &as _ b c] [1 2 3]

binds b to 2, c to 3 and vect to [1 2 3] (_ avoids binding as usual).

(plist &as &plist :b b) (list :a 1 :b 2 :c 3)

binds b to 2 and plist to (:a 1 :b 2 :c 3). Same for &alist and &hash.

This is especially useful when we want to capture the result of a computation and destructure at the same time. Consider the form (function-returning-complex-structure) returning a list of two vectors with two items each. We want to capture this entire result and pass it to another computation, but at the same time we want to get the second item from each vector. We can achieve it with pattern

(result &as [_ a] [_ b]) (function-returning-complex-structure)

Note: Clojure programmers may know this feature as the ":as binding". The difference is that we put the &as at the front because we need to support improper list binding.

(-let (([a (b c) d] [1 (2 3) 4])) (list a b c d)) ;; => (1 2 3 4)
(-let [(a b c . d) (list 1 2 3 4 5 6)] (list a b c d)) ;; => (1 2 3 (4 5 6))
(-let [(&plist :foo foo :bar bar) (list :baz 3 :foo 1 :qux 4 :bar 2)] (list foo bar)) ;; => (1 2)

-let* (varlist &rest body)

Bind variables according to varlist then eval body.

varlist is a list of lists of the form (pattern source). Each pattern is matched against the source structurally. source is only evaluated once for each pattern.

Each source can refer to the symbols already bound by this varlist. This is useful if you want to destructure source recursively but also want to name the intermediate structures.

See -let for the list of all possible patterns.

(-let* (((a . b) (cons 1 2)) ((c . d) (cons 3 4))) (list a b c d)) ;; => (1 2 3 4)
(-let* (((a . b) (cons 1 (cons 2 3))) ((c . d) b)) (list a b c d)) ;; => (1 (2 . 3) 2 3)
(-let* (((&alist "foo" foo "bar" bar) (list (cons "foo" 1) (cons "bar" (list 'a 'b 'c)))) ((a b c) bar)) (list foo a b c bar)) ;; => (1 a b c (a b c))

-lambda (match-form &rest body)

Return a lambda which destructures its input as match-form and executes body.

Note that you have to enclose the match-form in a pair of parens, such that:

(-lambda (x) body)
(-lambda (x y ...) body)

has the usual semantics of lambda. Furthermore, these get translated into normal lambda, so there is no performance penalty.

See -let for a description of the destructuring mechanism.

(-map (-lambda ((x y)) (+ x y)) '((1 2) (3 4) (5 6))) ;; => (3 7 11)
(-map (-lambda ([x y]) (+ x y)) '([1 2] [3 4] [5 6])) ;; => (3 7 11)
(funcall (-lambda ((_ . a) (_ . b)) (-concat a b)) '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6)) ;; => (2 3 5 6)

-setq ([match-form val] ...)

Bind each match-form to the value of its val.

match-form destructuring is done according to the rules of -let.

This macro allows you to bind multiple variables by destructuring the value, so for example:

(-setq (a b) x
       (&plist :c c) plist)

expands roughly speaking to the following code

(setq a (car x)
      b (cadr x)
      c (plist-get plist :c))

Care is taken to only evaluate each val once so that in case of multiple assignments it does not cause unexpected side effects.

(let (a) (-setq a 1) a) ;; => 1
(let (a b) (-setq (a b) (list 1 2)) (list a b)) ;; => (1 2)
(let (c) (-setq (&plist :c c) (list :c "c")) c) ;; => "c"

Side effects

Functions iterating over lists for side effect only.

-each (list fn)

Call fn on each element of list. Return nil; this function is intended for side effects.

Its anaphoric counterpart is --each.

For access to the current element's index in list, see -each-indexed.

(let (l) (-each '(1 2 3) (lambda (x) (push x l))) l) ;; => (3 2 1)
(let (l) (--each '(1 2 3) (push it l)) l) ;; => (3 2 1)
(-each '(1 2 3) #'identity) ;; => nil

-each-while (list pred fn)

Call fn on each item in list, while (pred item) is non-nil. Once an item is reached for which pred returns nil, fn is no longer called. Return nil; this function is intended for side effects.

Its anaphoric counterpart is --each-while.

(let (l) (-each-while '(2 4 5 6) #'even? (lambda (x) (push x l))) l) ;; => (4 2)
(let (l) (--each-while '(1 2 3 4) (< it 3) (push it l)) l) ;; => (2 1)
(let ((s 0)) (--each-while '(1 3 4 5) (< it 5) (setq s (+ s it))) s) ;; => 8

-each-indexed (list fn)

Call fn on each index and element of list. For each item at index in list, call (funcall fn index item). Return nil; this function is intended for side effects.

See also: -map-indexed.

(let (l) (-each-indexed '(a b c) (lambda (i x) (push (list x i) l))) l) ;; => ((c 2) (b 1) (a 0))
(let (l) (--each-indexed '(a b c) (push (list it it-index) l)) l) ;; => ((c 2) (b 1) (a 0))
(let (l) (--each-indexed () (push it l)) l) ;; => ()

-each-r (list fn)

Call fn on each element of list in reversed order. Return nil; this function is intended for side effects.

Its anaphoric counterpart is --each-r.

(let (l) (-each-r '(1 2 3) (lambda (x) (push x l))) l) ;; => (1 2 3)
(let (l) (--each-r '(1 2 3) (push it l)) l) ;; => (1 2 3)
(-each-r '(1 2 3) #'identity) ;; => nil

-each-r-while (list pred fn)

Call fn on each item in reversed list, while (pred item) is non-nil. Once an item is reached for which pred returns nil, fn is no longer called. Return nil; this function is intended for side effects.

Its anaphoric counterpart is --each-r-while.

(let (l) (-each-r-while '(2 4 5 6) #'even? (lambda (x) (push x l))) l) ;; => (6)
(let (l) (--each-r-while '(1 2 3 4) (>= it 3) (push it l)) l) ;; => (3 4)
(let ((s 0)) (--each-r-while '(1 2 3 5) (> it 1) (setq s (+ s it))) s) ;; => 10

-dotimes (num fn)

Call fn num times, presumably for side effects. fn is called with a single argument on successive integers running from 0, inclusive, to num, exclusive. fn is not called if num is less than 1.

This function's anaphoric counterpart is --dotimes.

(let (s) (-dotimes 3 (lambda (n) (push n s))) s) ;; => (2 1 0)
(let (s) (-dotimes 0 (lambda (n) (push n s))) s) ;; => ()
(let (s) (--dotimes 5 (push it s)) s) ;; => (4 3 2 1 0)

Destructive operations

Macros that modify variables holding lists.

!cons (car cdr)

Destructive: Set cdr to the cons of car and cdr.

(let (l) (!cons 5 l) l) ;; => (5)
(let ((l '(3))) (!cons 5 l) l) ;; => (5 3)

!cdr (list)

Destructive: Set list to the cdr of list.

(let ((l '(3))) (!cdr l) l) ;; => ()
(let ((l '(3 5))) (!cdr l) l) ;; => (5)

Function combinators

Functions that manipulate and compose other functions.

-partial (fn &rest args)

Take a function fn and fewer than the normal arguments to fn, and return a fn that takes a variable number of additional args. When called, the returned function calls fn with args first and then additional args.

(funcall (-partial '- 5) 3) ;; => 2
(funcall (-partial '+ 5 2) 3) ;; => 10

-rpartial (fn &rest args)

Takes a function fn and fewer than the normal arguments to fn, and returns a fn that takes a variable number of additional args. When called, the returned function calls fn with the additional args first and then args.

(funcall (-rpartial '- 5) 8) ;; => 3
(funcall (-rpartial '- 5 2) 10) ;; => 3

-juxt (&rest fns)

Takes a list of functions and returns a fn that is the juxtaposition of those fns. The returned fn takes a variable number of args, and returns a list containing the result of applying each fn to the args (left-to-right).

(funcall (-juxt '+ '-) 3 5) ;; => (8 -2)
(-map (-juxt 'identity 'square) '(1 2 3)) ;; => ((1 1) (2 4) (3 9))

-compose (&rest fns)

Takes a list of functions and returns a fn that is the composition of those fns. The returned fn takes a variable number of arguments, and returns the result of applying each fn to the result of applying the previous fn to the arguments (right-to-left).

(funcall (-compose 'square '+) 2 3) ;; => (square (+ 2 3))
(funcall (-compose 'identity 'square) 3) ;; => (square 3)
(funcall (-compose 'square 'identity) 3) ;; => (square 3)

-applify (fn)

Changes an n-arity function fn to a 1-arity function that expects a list with n items as arguments

(-map (-applify '+) '((1 1 1) (1 2 3) (5 5 5))) ;; => (3 6 15)
(-map (-applify (lambda (a b c) `(,a (,b (,c))))) '((1 1 1) (1 2 3) (5 5 5))) ;; => ((1 (1 (1))) (1 (2 (3))) (5 (5 (5))))
(funcall (-applify '<) '(3 6)) ;; => t

-on (operator transformer)

Return a function of two arguments that first applies transformer to each of them and then applies operator on the results (in the same order).

In types: (b -> b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> a -> c

(-sort (-on '< 'length) '((1 2 3) (1) (1 2))) ;; => ((1) (1 2) (1 2 3))
(-min-by (-on '> 'length) '((1 2 3) (4) (1 2))) ;; => (4)
(-min-by (-on 'string-lessp 'number-to-string) '(2 100 22)) ;; => 22

-flip (func)

Swap the order of arguments for binary function func.

In types: (a -> b -> c) -> b -> a -> c

(funcall (-flip '<) 2 1) ;; => t
(funcall (-flip '-) 3 8) ;; => 5
(-sort (-flip '<) '(4 3 6 1)) ;; => (6 4 3 1)

-const (c)

Return a function that returns c ignoring any additional arguments.

In types: a -> b -> a

(funcall (-const 2) 1 3 "foo") ;; => 2
(-map (-const 1) '("a" "b" "c" "d")) ;; => (1 1 1 1)
(-sum (-map (-const 1) '("a" "b" "c" "d"))) ;; => 4

-cut (&rest params)

Take n-ary function and n arguments and specialize some of them. Arguments denoted by <> will be left unspecialized.

See srfi-26 for detailed description.

(funcall (-cut list 1 <> 3 <> 5) 2 4) ;; => (1 2 3 4 5)
(-map (-cut funcall <> 5) `(1+ 1- ,(lambda (x) (/ 1.0 x)))) ;; => (6 4 0.2)
(-map (-cut <> 1 2 3) '(list vector string)) ;; => ((1 2 3) [1 2 3] "\1\2\3")

-not (pred)

Take a unary predicate pred and return a unary predicate that returns t if pred returns nil and nil if pred returns non-nil.

(funcall (-not 'even?) 5) ;; => t
(-filter (-not (-partial '< 4)) '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8)) ;; => (1 2 3 4)

-orfn (&rest preds)

Take list of unary predicates preds and return a unary predicate with argument x that returns non-nil if at least one of the preds returns non-nil on x.

In types: [a -> Bool] -> a -> Bool

(-filter (-orfn 'even? (-partial (-flip '<) 5)) '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)) ;; => (1 2 3 4 6 8 10)
(funcall (-orfn 'stringp 'even?) "foo") ;; => t

-andfn (&rest preds)

Take list of unary predicates preds and return a unary predicate with argument x that returns non-nil if all of the preds returns non-nil on x.

In types: [a -> Bool] -> a -> Bool

(funcall (-andfn (-cut < <> 10) 'even?) 6) ;; => t
(funcall (-andfn (-cut < <> 10) 'even?) 12) ;; => nil
(-filter (-andfn (-not 'even?) (-cut >= 5 <>)) '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)) ;; => (1 3 5)

-iteratefn (fn n)

Return a function fn composed n times with itself.

fn is a unary function. If you need to use a function of higher arity, use -applify first to turn it into a unary function.

With n = 0, this acts as identity function.

In types: (a -> a) -> Int -> a -> a.

This function satisfies the following law:

(funcall (-iteratefn fn n) init) = (-last-item (-iterate fn init (1+ n))).

(funcall (-iteratefn (lambda (x) (* x x)) 3) 2) ;; => 256
(funcall (-iteratefn '1+ 3) 1) ;; => 4
(funcall (-iteratefn 'cdr 3) '(1 2 3 4 5)) ;; => (4 5)

-fixfn (fn &optional equal-test halt-test)

Return a function that computes the (least) fixpoint of fn.

fn must be a unary function. The returned lambda takes a single argument, x, the initial value for the fixpoint iteration. The iteration halts when either of the following conditions is satisfied:

1. Iteration converges to the fixpoint, with equality being tested using equal-test. If equal-test is not specified, equal is used. For functions over the floating point numbers, it may be necessary to provide an appropriate approximate comparison test.

2. halt-test returns a non-nil value. halt-test defaults to a simple counter that returns t after -fixfn-max-iterations, to guard against infinite iteration. Otherwise, halt-test must be a function that accepts a single argument, the current value of x, and returns non-nil as long as iteration should continue. In this way, a more sophisticated convergence test may be supplied by the caller.

The return value of the lambda is either the fixpoint or, if iteration halted before converging, a cons with car halted and cdr the final output from halt-test.

In types: (a -> a) -> a -> a.

(funcall (-fixfn #'cos #'approx=) 0.7) ;; ~> 0.7390851332151607
(funcall (-fixfn (lambda (x) (expt (+ x 10) 0.25))) 2.0) ;; => 1.8555845286409378
(funcall (-fixfn #'sin #'approx=) 0.1) ;; => (halted . t)

-prodfn (&rest fns)

Take a list of n functions and return a function that takes a list of length n, applying i-th function to i-th element of the input list. Returns a list of length n.

In types (for n=2): ((a -> b), (c -> d)) -> (a, c) -> (b, d)

This function satisfies the following laws:

(-compose (-prodfn f g ...) (-prodfn f' g' ...)) = (-prodfn (-compose f f') (-compose g g') ...)
(-prodfn f g ...) = (-juxt (-compose f (-partial 'nth 0)) (-compose g (-partial 'nth 1)) ...)
(-compose (-prodfn f g ...) (-juxt f' g' ...)) = (-juxt (-compose f f') (-compose g g') ...)
(-compose (-partial 'nth n) (-prod f1 f2 ...)) = (-compose fn (-partial 'nth n))

(funcall (-prodfn '1+ '1- 'number-to-string) '(1 2 3)) ;; => (2 1 "3")
(-map (-prodfn '1+ '1-) '((1 2) (3 4) (5 6) (7 8))) ;; => ((2 1) (4 3) (6 5) (8 7))
(apply '+ (funcall (-prodfn 'length 'string-to-number) '((1 2 3) "15"))) ;; => 18

Contribute

Yes, please do. Pure functions in the list manipulation realm only, please. There's a suite of examples/tests in dev/examples.el, so remember to add tests for your additions, or I might break them later.

You'll find the repo at:

https://github.com/magnars/dash.el

Run the tests with:

make check

Regenerate the docs with:

make docs

I highly recommend that you install these as a pre-commit hook, so that the tests are always running and the docs are always in sync:

cp dev/pre-commit.sh .git/hooks/pre-commit

Oh, and don't edit README.md or dash.texi directly; they are auto-generated. Change readme-template.md or dash-template.texi instead, respectively.

To ensure that dash.el can be distributed with GNU ELPA or Emacs, we require that all contributors assign copyright to the Free Software Foundation. For more on this, see (info "(emacs) Copyright Assignment").

Contributors

• Matus Goljer contributed lots of features and functions.
• Takafumi Arakaki contributed -group-by.
• tali713 is the author of -applify.
• Víctor M. Valenzuela contributed -repeat.
• Nic Ferrier contributed -cons*.
• Wilfred Hughes contributed -slice, -first-item, and -last-item.
• Emanuel Evans contributed -if-let, -when-let, and -insert-at.
• Johan Andersson contributed -sum, -product, and -same-items?.
• Christina Whyte contributed -compose.
• Steve Lamb contributed -cycle, -pad, -annotate, -zip-fill, and a variadic version of -zip.
• Fredrik Bergroth made the -if-let family use -let destructuring and improved the script for generating documentation.
• Mark Oteiza contributed -iota and the script to create an Info manual.
• Vasilij Schneidermann contributed -some.
• William West made -fixfn more robust at handling floats.
• Cam Saul contributed -some->, -some->>, and -some-->.
• Basil L. Contovounesios contributed -common-prefix, -common-suffix, and various other improvements.
• Paul Pogonyshev contributed -each-r and -each-r-while.

Thanks!

New contributors are very welcome. See the Contribute section above.

License

Copyright (C) 2012-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Author: Magnar Sveen magnars@gmail.com

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.