From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: sequence manipulation functions Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:28:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <173812a0-9bd3-40ba-b3b7-c7e2fbaf6197@default> References: <87oasmmwzt.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415212120 17185 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2014 18:28:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nicolas Petton , Stefan Monnier , Emacs developers To: Damien Cassou Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 05 19:28:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm5Jl-0004zv-V4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:28:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm5Jl-0001K7-Hs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:28:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm5JZ-00013o-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:28:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm5JP-0002o6-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:28:17 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:41247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm5JP-0002no-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:28:07 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sA5IS4x2022437 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:28:05 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sA5IS3cJ010139 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:28:04 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0015.oracle.com (abhmp0015.oracle.com [141.146.116.21]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sA5IS3ld014393; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:28:03 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176426 Archived-At: > > Emacs should follow Common Lisp in this regard. >=20 > why is compatibility with Common Lisp a requirement? No one said it is a requirement. > The main Common Lisp functions are already available > in a dedicated package. Precisely. So either we don't need this added to the "core" or we should move those functions to the core. It makes little sense to just add stuff that kinda-sorta does the same thing.