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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 10:50:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mvbrmj7r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d19e8940-2ef4-bf59-11d0-8f4db2170b2f@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 8 Apr 2017 00:42:57 -0700)

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 00:42:57 -0700
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Noam Postavsky wrote:
> > having copy-record would still be a good idea, as it helps
> > show the intent better.
> 
> If we go that route, for consistency shouldn't Emacs also have aref-record and 
> aref-byte-code-function as aliases for 'aref'?

Let me remind you that this kind of "literal" consistency was never a
goal in Emacs development.  It's one of the first lessons I got from
RMS years ago; I'm sure you've heard that as well at some point.  We
make stuff consistent where it makes sense, but not everywhere.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-08  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-05 15:31 Recent change in master breaks async package update using paradox Kaushal Modi
2017-04-05 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-05 21:59 ` Tom Tromey
2017-04-05 22:48   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-06  5:00     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-06 10:46       ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-06 11:00         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-06 11:28           ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-06 12:12             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-06 12:22               ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-06 12:36                 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-06 11:19 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07  5:42 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07  7:25   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-07  7:40     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07  9:51       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-07 13:28         ` Debugging problems using async.el Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 14:11           ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-07 14:39             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-07 18:10             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 11:59       ` Recent change in master breaks async package update using paradox Stefan Monnier
2017-04-07 13:07         ` What is a "sequence"? Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 13:26           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-07 16:56       ` If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records? Paul Eggert
2017-04-07 17:27         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 17:41           ` Drew Adams
2017-04-07 18:23             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 18:30               ` Drew Adams
2017-04-07 19:07                 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-07 19:13                   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-07 20:49                     ` Drew Adams
2017-04-07 21:00                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-07 21:02                       ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-08  1:58                         ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-08  5:03                           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-08  5:25                             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-08  5:34                           ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-08  7:42                             ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-08  7:50                               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-04-08 13:33                               ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-08 11:34                         ` Philipp Stephani
2017-04-08 12:24                           ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-08 15:24                             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-08 17:17                               ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-08 17:46                                 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-09 19:15                             ` Richard Stallman
2017-04-11 12:27                               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-07 19:25                   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-07 19:41                     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-07 20:12                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-07 19:43                     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-07 17:59         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-07 18:28 ` Recent change in master breaks async package update using paradox Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-08  6:50   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-08 12:25     ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-08 13:35     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-08 18:21       ` Lars Brinkhoff

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