Add seq-into as a public function

* lisp/emacs-lisp/seq.el: Make seq-into a public function (replacing
seq--into)
* test/automated/seq-tests.el: Add tests for seq-into
* doc/lispref/sequences.texi: Add documentation for seq-into

2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index 42bff7c865a..260656c6cf7 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-03-09  Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
+
+        * sequences.texi (seq-into): Add documentation for the new
+        seq-into function.
+
 2015-03-03  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
         * processes.texi (Synchronous Processes): Update documentation of
diff --git a/doc/lispref/sequences.texi b/doc/lispref/sequences.texi
index 04404f886e0..1af353590cf 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/sequences.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/sequences.texi
@@ -740,6 +740,28 @@ of @var{sequence}.  Keys are compared using @code{equal}.
 @end example
 @end defun
 
+@defun seq-into sequence type
+  This function converts the sequence @var{sequence} into a sequence
+of type @var{type}.  @var{type} can be one of the following symbols:
+@code{vector}, @code{string} or @code{list}.
+
+@example
+@group
+(seq-into [1 2 3] 'list)
+@result{} (1 2 3)
+@end group
+@group
+(seq-into nil 'vector)
+@result{} []
+@end group
+@group
+(seq-into "hello" 'vector)
+@result{} [104 101 108 108 111]
+@end group
+@end example
+@end defun
+
+
 @defmac seq-doseq (var sequence [result]) body@dots{}
 @cindex sequence iteration
   This macro is like @code{dolist}, except that @var{sequence} can be a list,