From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Stefan <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
Demetrios Obenour <demetriobenour@gmail.com>
Cc: 16963@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16963: A patch to create a list-with-tail primitive.
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:45:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5330EDB0.1070406@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwveh1rc9nm.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
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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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-25 2:45 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 [this message]
2014-03-27 23:37 ` Demetrios Obenour
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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