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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Stefan Merten <smerten@oekonux.de>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using cl in rst.el and elsewhere
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:12:34 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hautw0kd.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1vcj9xhi3.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo's message of "Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:21:24 +0800")

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> We are already using CLOS (in the form of EIEIO), so the elisp lib cl.el
> really has been unfairly treated for such a long time because it was put
> into emacs too ahead of time and because of rms's dislike of CL (the
> language). Also putting a cl- in front of everything merely reminds
> people of Common Lisp. Can we just think of cl.el as some good ideas
> stolen from Common Lisp and forget about it hereafter.

Well cl.el certainly isn't common-lisp, that's for sure...

Unfortunately, it seems that a goal of cl.el was to sorta-kinda give an
_illusion_ of being CL.  It seems a lot of the ugliness of cl.el is tied
up in that attempt, and the result is such a tangled ball of hair that
teasing out clean subsets doesn't seem trivial.

-miles

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-03  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-30 13:29 Re-including rst.el into Emacs repository Stefan Merten
2012-04-30 13:37 ` Deniz Dogan
2012-04-30 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-07 20:06   ` Stefan Merten
2012-05-08  1:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-29 20:30       ` Stefan Merten
2012-05-30  2:36         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-30 19:15           ` Stefan Merten
2012-05-31 18:15             ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-31 19:22               ` Leo
2012-06-02 12:16                 ` Wrong direction of C-M-a/e in rst-mode (was: Re: Re-including rst.el into Emacs repository) Stefan Merten
2012-06-03  2:08                   ` Wrong direction of C-M-a/e in rst-mode Leo
2012-06-02 10:05               ` Using cl in rst.el and elsewhere (was: Re: Re-including rst.el into Emacs repository) Stefan Merten
2012-06-02 19:15                 ` Using cl in rst.el and elsewhere Glenn Morris
2012-06-03  3:23                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-03  3:57                     ` Leo
2012-06-02 19:56                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-03  2:21                   ` Leo
2012-06-03  3:12                     ` Miles Bader [this message]
2012-06-03 13:41                     ` Stefan Merten
2012-06-03 13:47                       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-06-03 15:15                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-03 18:30                       ` Richard Stallman
2012-06-04 13:23                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-05 19:38                     ` Stefan Merten
2012-05-02 16:59 ` Re-including rst.el into Emacs repository Barry Warsaw

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