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bug#25129: 26.0.50; seq-some function


From: Nicolas Petton
Subject: bug#25129: 26.0.50; seq-some function
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 11:24:58 +0100

Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> writes:

> Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> writes:
>
>> Pierre Lorenzon <devel@pollock-nageoire.net> writes:
>>
>> Hi Pierre,
>>
>>> I well understand now that I must use seq-find instead of
>>> seq-some but I think that I will not be the only one being
>>> confused by these functions specifications !
>>
>> There is a mistake (extra if) in the documentation, I will fix that.
>>
>> Other than that, is the following less confusing?
>>
>>   Return non-nil if PRED returns non-nil for at least one element of 
>> SEQUENCE.
>>   If so, return the value returned by PRED.

> The previous doc string contains more information: it explicitely says
> that it returns the _first_ non-nil (PRED element).

Indeed, what about:

  Return non-nil if PRED returns non-nil for at least one element of SEQUENCE.
  If so, return the first non-nil value returned by PRED.

Cheers,
Nico

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