From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lars Brinkhoff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records? Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 07:03:12 +0200 Organization: nocrew Message-ID: <86vaqf1ofj.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> References: <86pogo4vty.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <8360igof0k.fsf@gnu.org> <867f2w4qdk.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <0e6a0a16-8133-b2bc-404a-d0016f0c655e@cs.ucla.edu> <86h9202knq.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <4f2a1d4c-8703-4f07-a721-ea28c348631d@default> <864ly02i1m.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <74e43816-ff68-d443-e37b-fd41bbf584d0@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491627828 15767 195.159.176.226 (8 Apr 2017 05:03:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 05:03:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 08 07:03:41 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 1cwiX7-0002sl-Rx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2017 07:03:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53535 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwiXD-0007zq-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2017 01:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwiX8-0007zl-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2017 01:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwiX3-00079F-DZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2017 01:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51003 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwiX3-00076b-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2017 01:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cwiWr-0001Ox-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2017 07:03:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:iX0/ZGEWY/lNxabms4oQM4OHGAw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:213795 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > OK, given what you and Stefan have said, for backward-compatibility > reasons copy-sequence should work on records. This means Emacs doesn't > need a copy-record function, as people can just use copy-sequence. I > installed the attached patch to do that, and to try to document the > current low-level behavior better. Some EIEIO tests now fail. I haven't yet checked if it's because of this particular change, but it seems a likely candidate.