From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stuart D. Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: `special-form-p' again Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:49:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43830.128.165.123.18.1162414148.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162414177 12676 80.91.229.2 (1 Nov 2006 20:49:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:49:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 01 21:49:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfN1d-0006sF-BD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:49:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfN1c-0000NA-Qv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:49:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GfN1Q-0000HY-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:49:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GfN1O-0000G2-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:49:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfN1O-0000Fm-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.65.95.54] (helo=mailwasher-b.lanl.gov) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GfN1O-0003DH-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailrelay3.lanl.gov (mailrelay3.lanl.gov [128.165.4.104]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id kA1Kn9Dq024562 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:49:09 -0700 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay3.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id kA1Kn8o6026264 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:49:08 -0700 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kA1Kn8x3008389 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:49:08 -0700 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id kA1Kn8OG008387; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:49:08 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.lanl.gov: apache set sender to herring@lanl.gov using -f Original-Received: from 128.165.123.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:49:08 -0800 (PST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6-7.el3.7lanl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:61572 Archived-At: I have one other old patch I submitted that got little attention (though I know not whether due to papers problems) and which I'd like reconsidered: a function to determine whether a function is a special form so that such things as advice.el wouldn't need to maintain a list. It's not a new feature at all and is arguably a bugfix since it prevents lossage if the list is out of date. The original message is at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-07/msg00897.html; as with my other recent re-post, the old patch is slightly odd, and may be sufficiently odd and/or old as to break. If so, I can probably make another one (with the better source setup I have now). Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.