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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265214 Archived-At: >>>>> On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:39:01 -0500, Richard Stallman said: Richard> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] Richard> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] Richard> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] >> Would it make sense to add a function that's exactly the opposite of >> `ignore' (for symmetry and convenience)? If so, what would it be >> called? Richard> Is there real use for it? Is it useful often enough that Richard> (lambda (&rest ignore) t) won't suffice? Sometimes you just want to return t, and writing out the lambda is verbose and tedious. We have #'ignore, what's wrong with #'pretend-to-pay-attention? Robert