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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's "mapconcat" in Common Lisp?
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 06:19:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-08-30, B. Pym <Nobody447095@here-nor-there.org> wrote:
> Shorter:
>
> (define (mapconcat fun lst sep)
>   (string-join (map (compose x->string fun) lst) (x->string sep)))

"Concatenate" is a pleonasm for "catenate", which is based on a
Latin root for "chain". Chaining is implicitly together ("con").
Even the Unix dolts understood this, so we have /bin/cat
and strcat, and not /bin/concat and strconcat.

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