From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 10:30:38 -0400 Message-ID: <874mvi612p.fsf@yeeloong.lan> References: <54193A70.9020901@member.fsf.org> <87lhp6h4zb.fsf@panthera.terpri.org> <87k34qo4c1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54257C22.2000806@yandex.ru> <83iokato6x.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq8pwjen.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837g0ptnlj.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3yxwdr6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx3tmi3t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834mvttgsf.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhp5m99w.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9ztm5oa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d2ahm3nw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871tqneyvl.fsf@netris.org> <877g0eu79i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412519504 15431 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2014 14:31:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 14:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, Richard Stallman , dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , eliz@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 05 16:31:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XamqU-0006zD-83 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 16:31:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XamqT-0003w8-Pt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 10:31:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XamqL-0003vy-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 10:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XamqF-0004U9-Ou for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 10:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:55097) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xamq1-0004PP-E6; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 10:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from c-24-62-95-23.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.62.95.23] helo=yeeloong.lan) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Xampu-0007fz-Tu; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 10:30:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877g0eu79i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:43:05 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 96.39.62.75 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174991 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > What do you think? Do I worry too much [about nothing]? :) > > Listen to your Uncle David on this one. You should treat every > instance of nil as a biohazard. If you had actually read what I wrote, you'd know that in the case I outlined, there is no instance of nil at all. Mark