From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sweeter Emacs Lisp Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:08:48 +0200 Message-ID: <874nbv595b.fsf@zigzag.favinet> References: <8738rh6ftk.fsf@gnu.org> <87li5744uv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373954790 6875 80.91.229.3 (16 Jul 2013 06:06:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 06:06:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 16 08:06:32 2013 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 1UyyPA-00059h-7P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:06:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyyP9-0001Ea-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:06:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyyP5-0001B3-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyyP2-0006J9-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp206.alice.it ([82.57.200.102]:35299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyyOz-0006Gs-Vc; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:06:22 -0400 Original-Received: from zigzag.favinet (82.48.1.100) by smtp206.alice.it (8.6.060.26) id 51DBE14601608023; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:06:15 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UyyRZ-0003A4-Hi; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:09:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87li5744uv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:26:48 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.102 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:161917 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable () Miles Bader () Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:26:48 +0900 [...] but AFAICS, car and cdr are way more used than first and rest... the latter were half-hearted attempts at making lisp "friendly" but have never seemed to have gotten much traction; whether they're better is at best, arguable... CAR and CDR are cool because they align vertically nicely. I spend an inordinate amount of time choosing sets of identifiers w/ this property. Then, M-x zone and a drink -- cheap entertainment for the old fool... =2D-=20 Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical) (not (via 'mailing-list))) =3D> nil --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHk43MACgkQZwMiJEyAdQJUiACfar4tZg4/zOq3WaMPCKX8q+vU 2yoAniNd9kCFgCqSuKg2ePym0HTS0dQ6 =J94b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--