From: Demetrios Obenour <demetriobenour@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: 16963@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16963: A patch to create a list-with-tail primitive.
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:37:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1395963445.1956.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5330EDB0.1070406@dancol.org>
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 19:45 -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 03/24/2014 07:10 PM, Stefan wrote:
> >> Since a comment in backquote.el said that backquote-list* needed to be a
> >> primitive, here is an implementation of it as one, under the name
> >> list-with-tail.
> >
> > I think it would make more sense to call it `list*'. Also it might make
> > sense to change backquote.el so it uses this `list*' (tho probably only
> > when passed with enough arguments).
>
> Agreed. On more that one occasion, I've wished we had a CL-less `list*'.
> If you do add this feature, please make sure the existing list* compiler
> macros keep working.
>
What about just deleting these compiler macros, and making cl-list* an
alias for list*?
There seems to be little point in keeping them if list* is a primitive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-27 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-07 13:58 bug#16963: A patch to create a list-with-tail primitive Demetrios Obenour
2014-03-25 2:10 ` Stefan
2014-03-25 2:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-03-27 23:37 ` Demetrios Obenour [this message]
2014-03-27 23:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-03-28 0:43 ` Demetrios Obenour
2014-03-29 1:46 ` Demetrios Obenour
2014-03-29 1:48 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-03-29 13:30 ` Demetrios Obenour
2016-02-24 2:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-26 14:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-28 3:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-28 3:30 ` Drew Adams
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