From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 40968@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil)
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 13:55:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOqdjBe+UiPTUSV_nC7ZLp+jNG7D6UhrrLTw60Jqn6wpCpMYKg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkJxwZcZ2LGRGe0VdEYTA3BSxse-2yRogF+ou0y0Zt1=g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:02 PM Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
> Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com> writes:
> > (apply FUNCTION ARGUMENT &rest ARGUMENTS), I guess. I missed it in the
> > first patch.
>
> Thanks.
>
> FWIW, I still think we should avoid changing the function signature if
> at all possible.
Is the function signature relevant for anything but eldoc?
> apply is fundamental to Lisp, and has been defined like this for a
> long time.
I don't know about that. Anything but the two-argument form of apply
strikes me as rather dialect-dependent, but I may be wrong.
> See the definition of "The Universal S-Function apply" in
> John McCarthy's paper: [1]
>
> apply[f;args] =eval[cons[f;appq[args]];NIL],
I must admit I don't know how appq is defined.
> Also note that it is still defined like this elsewhere:
I may be misreading your examples, but they seem to me to have
different signatures from the one hitherto used in Emacs.
> Scheme: (apply function argument-list)
Precisely two args, right?
> Common Lisp: apply function &rest args+ => result*
At least two args.
> Clojure: (apply f args)
Precisely two args again?
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-29 18:26 bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil) Pip Cet
2020-04-29 18:35 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 1:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06 7:26 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 11:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06 11:49 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 13:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06 13:55 ` Pip Cet [this message]
2020-05-06 15:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06 18:06 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 19:26 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 17:54 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 18:28 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-06 19:17 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 19:21 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-07 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 20:32 ` Phil Sainty
2020-05-06 21:35 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29 3:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-06 10:18 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-06 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 10:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-06 11:25 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 11:49 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-06 18:42 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-07 6:53 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-07 9:11 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-07 11:54 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-07 11:58 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-07 12:20 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-07 13:53 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-06-02 7:36 ` Pip Cet
2020-06-02 16:32 ` Drew Adams
2020-06-02 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-02 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 19:28 ` Drew Adams
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2020-06-02 17:10 ` Drew Adams
2020-06-02 18:41 ` Pip Cet
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