From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC-SVN problem Date: 10 May 2004 15:16:04 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ad0gqeo5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <20040508013158.GB7312@fornax.collapsar.net> <878yg4yppi.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <409FC84C.60604@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084217991 4752 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 19:39:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 19:39:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 21:39:39 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNGcl-0002gf-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 21:39:39 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNGcl-0000tz-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 21:39:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNGRx-0005Fo-TZ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 15:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNGIc-0003TJ-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 15:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNGGw-0002w9-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 15:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.4] (helo=tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNGG0-0002gY-Ef for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 15:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.68.218.161]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040510191607.JHSR18955.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Mon, 10 May 2004 15:16:07 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 654ABD73CE; Mon, 10 May 2004 15:16:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-Reply-To: <409FC84C.60604@yahoo.com> Original-Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23077 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23077 >> Stefan, would you rather require 'cl', or just rewrite >> 'vc-svn-checkin' to not use 'list*'? > Wouldn't the second option be better? Why? The byte-compiler will turn it into the equivalent calls to `cons'. `list*' is a pretty simple a common list operation. Actually it's predefined in Emacs Lisp, once under the name backquote-list*-function and once under the name backquote-list*-macro. Stefan