From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 21:35:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83mu6qqj5e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <3bd09dca-dcdc-7569-e5fb-f6b53397af9d@yandex.ru> <83bln6s5on.fsf@gnu.org> <6d43996b-65ab-0bc6-9124-156520396910@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="20209"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 20:37:11 2020 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 1jUx0h-00058w-QA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 20:37:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42034 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUx0g-0001JM-TG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 14:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUwzn-0000Ur-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 14:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUwzm-0007L9-Vi; Sat, 02 May 2020 14:36:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4129 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUwzd-0002tt-Pk; Sat, 02 May 2020 14:36:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <6d43996b-65ab-0bc6-9124-156520396910@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 2 May 2020 21:25:26 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:248531 Archived-At: > Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, philippe.vaucher@gmail.com, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 21:25:26 +0300 > > On 02.05.2020 18:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> just having a string-concat alias could improve the situation. > > But concat is not only about strings. Will we have 3 different > > aliases? And what ab out the case where each argument is of a > > different type? > > BTW, speaking solely of concat, the return value is always a string. > > So a 'string-' prefix can make sense from that perspective anyway. That's a slippery slope. What to do with the likes of shell-command-to-string? or buffer-string? or even string-match?