From: Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>,
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.d>,
Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: removing flatten-list (alias for new flatten-tree function)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:00:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg4oq8q8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76ae4692-717a-4e68-e882-453ac8e0df62@cs.ucla.edu>
On Mon 17 Dec 2018 at 12:40, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for writing the new flatten-tree function and cleaning up
> existing duplicate functions. I tweaked its performance a bit and
> cleaned up some more duplicates.
Thanks!
> While doing that I found that I was confused by the existence of the
> just-added alias 'flatten-list', and I propose removing it as per the
> attached patch. I think people who want to find and use the new
> 'flatten-tree' function will typically be better served if it has just
> one name that fits in with existing Emacs Lisp functions like
> 'copy-tree', as opposed to also having a name that is a misnomer.
The reason I included `flatten-list' was that the existing
implementations (both inside and outside of Emacs) were nearly all
called foo-flatten-list or similar. I thought it would perhaps be easier
for people to find `flatten-list' than `flatten-tree'. I don't have a
really strong opinion about this, though.
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-17 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-17 18:40 removing flatten-list (alias for new flatten-tree function) Paul Eggert
2018-12-17 19:00 ` Alex Branham [this message]
2018-12-17 20:23 ` Drew Adams
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