Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Perhaps a `longer-than-p' function would be helpful?  I.e.,
>> (longer-than-p deleted 1)?  (Or some better name.)
>
> Just add an optional arg LIMIT to 'length', since the implementation
> will be the same, and you just want to terminate the loop as early as
> possible.

Sure, as a practical matter, adding an optional LIMIT to length is
probably the way to implement this.  But I think adding some predicates
(like the length< etc predicated proposed by Tomas) as wrappers around
calls to length with LIMIT makes sense for code readability.

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