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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Tak Ota' <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: simple useful functions
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:01:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762wkcavi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0A81F397D65C44D0804AF87B424D207C@us.oracle.com>

Drew Adams writes:

 > So what makes `.' more portable than `source'?

The "P" in "POSIX".

True, that doesn't generalize to csh.  But then, nothing does.  At
that point, you're not talking "a simple function we can just add
somewhere" anymore, you're talking about a whole package.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-30  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-28 18:56 simple useful functions Tak Ota
2010-10-29  3:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-29 18:13   ` Tak Ota
2010-10-29 19:02     ` Drew Adams
2010-10-29 19:26       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-29 20:19         ` Drew Adams
2010-10-29 20:47           ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-29 20:56             ` Chad Brown
2010-10-29 21:23               ` Drew Adams
2010-10-30  9:01       ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-10-30 10:55     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-11-02  0:40     ` Tak Ota
2010-11-02  2:22       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-03  0:38         ` Tak Ota
2010-11-03  5:27           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-03  8:09             ` Andreas Röhler
2010-11-03 10:13               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-03 18:08                 ` Tak Ota
2010-11-03 18:01             ` Tak Ota
2010-11-04  2:10               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-04  2:20                 ` Tak Ota
2010-11-04 13:58                 ` collect-string (was: simple useful functions) Stefan Monnier
2010-11-04 18:36                   ` Tak Ota
2010-11-04 20:18                     ` Tak Ota
2010-11-04 20:27                       ` Tak Ota
2010-11-05  7:52                         ` Andreas Röhler
2010-11-08 18:36                     ` collect-string Stefan Monnier
2010-11-09  0:18                       ` collect-string Tak Ota
2010-11-09  9:06                         ` collect-string Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-10  2:12                       ` collect-string Tak Ota
2010-11-30  2:14                         ` collect-string Tak Ota
2010-11-30  5:27                           ` collect-string Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-12-02  1:59                             ` collect-string Tak Ota
2010-12-02  7:00                               ` collect-string Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-12-02 14:16                         ` collect-string Stefan Monnier
2010-12-03  1:03                           ` collect-string Tak Ota
2010-12-03 19:17                             ` collect-string Stefan Monnier
2010-12-03 22:31                               ` collect-string Tak Ota
2010-12-03 22:40                                 ` collect-string Davis Herring
2010-12-03 22:47                                   ` collect-string Tak Ota
2010-12-03 22:56                                 ` collect-string Stefan Monnier
2010-12-03 23:15                                   ` collect-string Tak Ota
2010-12-04  2:01                                     ` collect-string Stefan Monnier
2010-12-04  2:07                                       ` collect-string Tak Ota
2010-12-04  3:27                                   ` collect-string Glenn Morris
2010-10-29  8:44 ` simple useful functions Andreas Schwab
2010-11-02  7:27 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-12-03 23:37 ` Tak Ota
2010-12-04  2:36   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-04  2:58     ` Tak Ota
2010-12-04  4:36       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-04  9:10         ` David Kastrup
2010-12-06 14:08         ` René Kyllingstad
2010-12-06 19:31           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-06 18:39         ` Tak Ota
2010-12-06 20:23           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-06 21:25             ` Tak Ota
2010-12-07  3:24               ` Stefan Monnier

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