From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Naming FCRs Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:46:39 -0500 Message-ID: <25033.3311.820141.174735@orion.rgrjr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13697"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 01:48:47 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n1eBz-0003Pw-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 01:48:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46256 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1eBx-0006dG-Dh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1eA0-0005w9-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rgrjr.com ([69.164.211.47]:46562) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1e9y-0005ys-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rgrjr.com (c-73-16-206-7.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [73.16.206.7]) by rgrjr.com (Postfix on openSUSE) with ESMTP id D3D5C1D6BB2; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:46:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from orion.rgrjr.com (orion.rgrjr.com [192.168.0.3]) by scorpio.rgrjr.com (Postfix on openSUSE GNU/Linux) with ESMTP id E95CE5FE3C; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:46:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 29.0.50 Received-SPF: none client-ip=69.164.211.47; envelope-from=rogers-emacs@rgrjr.homedns.org; helo=rgrjr.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:283370 Archived-At: From: Stefan Monnier Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 17:04:25 -0500 Hi, As the year is getting near its end, I figure it's a good time to open a competition to choose a name for the thingy I've been playing with in `scratch/fcr`. The current name stands for FunCallableRecords, but this name is clearly wrong, since it makes it sound like I'm defining a special kind of record that just happen to be callable as a function, whereas FCRs are really fundamentally functions that happen to have slots and a type, like records . . . Without looking at the code, this sounds more like a closure to me. Since the slots are accessible outside the function, that would make it a "transparent closure" . . . but I like the internal dissonance of "open closure" better. ;-} -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/