From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `thunk-let'? Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:37:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83r2so9in9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87infp9z6j.fsf@web.de> <87zi90eehg.fsf@web.de> <87o9ocd6s4.fsf@web.de> <87wp2zcwm2.fsf@web.de> <87mv3vwb2c.fsf_-_@web.de> <87h8tnowl4.fsf@web.de> <83vai3asgt.fsf@gnu.org> <83mv3eb85m.fsf@gnu.org> <87a7zdbsyf.fsf@web.de> <873755hbpr.fsf@web.de> <873754bm10.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511512728 19914 195.159.176.226 (24 Nov 2017 08:38:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 08:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pipcet@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 24 09:38:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eI9VL-0004Pu-7N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:38:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47987 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eI9VS-0007MA-FA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 03:38:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eI9Ut-0007M5-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 03:38:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eI9Uq-0006OK-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 03:38:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eI9Uq-0006O8-N2; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 03:38:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2606 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eI9Uq-0006WB-1S; Fri, 24 Nov 2017 03:38:04 -0500 In-reply-to: <873754bm10.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:41:47 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220420 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:41:47 +0100 > > > IMHO, lazy-let is much better as a name: thunk-let doesn't describe > > what it does, only how it's implemented; more importantly, > > JavaScript-like Promises could also be implemented with thunks, so > > it's ambiguous. > > What do others think about this? I had already asked if making > `lazy-let' an alias to `thunk-let' would be ok (package prefix rule), > but nobody had answered. My opinion about this doesn't necessarily mean much, but I think such n alias could be a good thing. > A second question is: Do we really want to have the library have no > autoloads? I see no reason not to autoload these.