From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why aren't there functions such as filter, take-while, etc. "by default"?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:35:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aasq4nmw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eii24nwb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Since Lisp, after all, is supposed to be a functional language, I'd like
> to see Emacs Lisp not penalize functional programming styles. Currently
> it does,
Not just With regard to performance, but also input readability (neither
`(lambda ... ,outer ...) nor the crutches involving make-symbol are
really straightforward), and predictability (dynamic rebinding!).
> and so I don't think general-purpose iteration constructs encouraging
> lambda predicates are a good idea for now.
--
David Kastrup
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-26 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-24 20:13 Why aren't there functions such as filter, take-while, etc. "by default"? Deniz Dogan
2010-04-25 16:24 ` David Kastrup
2010-04-25 19:09 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-04-25 20:27 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-04-25 22:56 ` Drew Adams
2010-04-25 23:10 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-04-26 3:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-26 8:29 ` David Kastrup
2010-04-26 8:35 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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