Super! .. thanks Alex,
Regards,
Kashyap

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 9:23 AM Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 08:34:34AM -0800, C K Kashyap wrote:
> > About the "filtering with a no-op" - that was my way of getting rid of
> > NIL's in the list - what's the right way :) ?
>
> Ah, yes, sure! A valid solution!
>
> I just did not trigger on that pattern, because I use (filter prog Lst), or
> sometimes (filter bool Lst) for that without further thinking.
>
> ((X) X) has a high overhead due to the EXPR function call. It binds and
> unbinds
> the X parameter, and runs the (almost empty) body between that.
>
> 'prog' is the ideal no-op function, as it evaluates all arguments, does
> nothing else, and is a built-in and fast as such.
>
> ☺/ A!ex
>
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