Subject: bug#21782: 25.0.50; New functions nfront/front

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:44:55 +0000 (UTC)

Hello, Richard.

Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> ISTR there are traditional names for those functions.
> I don't remember what they were, but if we are going to add them,
> we should use their traditional names.

How about `firstn':

"firstn n list
 Returns a list of length _n_, whose elements are the first _n_ elements
 of _list_.  if _list_ is fewer than _n_ elements long, the remaining
 elements of the list are ni."

[ Lisp Machine Manual, Sixth Edition, System Version 99, June 1984, by
  Richard Stallman, Daniel Weinreb and David Moon ]

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