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From: Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: sequence manipulation functions
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:41:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mudilzb.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1462510-edda-4984-9dce-e369790ec529@default>

I see "cl-lib" as a compatibility package with Common Lisp, not a base
library of the language. My goal is not to remove or replace "cl-lib",
but to add core sequence functions to Elisp.

Nico


Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> I think these should use a "seq-" prefix.  This will not only avoid
>> naming conflicts, but also helps discover those functions, since you
>> can type `(seq- TAB' to see all related functions.
>
> No.  Emacs should follow Common Lisp in this regard.
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node141.html#SECTION001800000000000000000
>
> And it should follow it not only in terms of names but also in terms
> of behavior, as much as is practical.  E.g., `some-p' should be `some',
> and it should have the Common Lisp `some' behavior.
>
> This might already be more or less the case for `cl-some' etc., in
> which case there is no need (and it would be a nuisance) to add a
> separate `some-p' etc. with a different behavior.

-- 
Nicolas Petton
http://nicolas-petton.fr




  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-05 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-04 22:17 sequence manipulation functions Nicolas Petton
2014-11-05  1:21 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-05  9:46   ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-05  4:58 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-05  9:45   ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-06  0:54   ` Daniel Colascione
2014-11-05  9:23 ` Damien Cassou
2014-11-05 18:12   ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-05 21:59     ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-05 22:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-06  0:30     ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-05 15:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-05 15:36   ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-05 15:52     ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-11-05 18:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-07 17:35       ` [PATCH] " Nicolas Petton
2014-11-07 17:43         ` Daniel Colascione
2014-11-10 17:41         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-10 22:28           ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-10 23:12           ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-11  2:20             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-12 17:49               ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-12 19:12                 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-11-12 19:30                   ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-12 20:28                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-12 20:56                       ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-12 23:06                         ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-12 23:17                           ` Nic Ferrier
2014-11-13  1:29                             ` Leo Liu
2014-11-13  5:21                               ` Drew Adams
2014-11-14  5:16                                 ` Leo Liu
2014-11-16 12:52                                   ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-11-16 14:16                                     ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-16 17:22                                       ` Drew Adams
2014-11-16 19:13                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-17  2:52                                         ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-17 11:46                                         ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-17 13:53                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-16  7:38                           ` Damien Cassou
2014-11-20 23:16                           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-21 12:40                             ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-21 13:11                               ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-21 13:28                                 ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-21 14:44                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-24 17:49                                     ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-24 18:01                                       ` Nicolas Petton
2014-11-05 16:25   ` Drew Adams
2014-11-05 17:21     ` Artur Malabarba
2014-11-05 18:27       ` Drew Adams
2014-11-05 17:22     ` Damien Cassou
2014-11-05 18:28       ` Drew Adams
2014-11-05 17:41     ` Nicolas Petton [this message]
2014-11-05 18:23       ` Tom Tromey
2014-11-05 18:29         ` Drew Adams
2014-11-05 18:29       ` Drew Adams
2014-11-06  4:39         ` Richard Stallman

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