From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
Cc: fgallina@gnu.org, Josh <josh@foxtail.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Sweeter Emacs Lisp
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:26:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li5744uv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM9Zgm0ayqcwT7gr12XC2xVh2=t4aadQNLxX_rrSECQhx3MTCA@mail.gmail.com> (Bozhidar Batsov's message of "Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:30:35 +0300")
Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com> writes:
> I'll also feel it's about time the Emacs Lisp standard library got a
> bit of facelift. In a time when most Lisp have embraces `first` and
> `rest` where're still clinging to functions named `car` and `cdr`
> for instance.
Er, what? I dunno about "weird" lisps like clojure, but AFAICS, car
and cdr are way more used than first and rest... the latter were
half-hearted attempts at making lisp "friendly" but have never seemed
to have gotten much traction; whether they're better is at best,
arguable...
-miles
--
Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words
erroneously repeated.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-14 2:22 Sweeter Emacs Lisp fgallina
2013-07-14 11:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-07-14 11:53 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-14 12:38 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-07-14 13:25 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-07-14 14:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-14 14:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-14 16:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-14 19:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-15 3:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-07-15 5:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-07-16 20:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-07-17 14:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-17 15:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-07-16 2:15 ` Miles Bader
2013-07-16 9:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-14 16:18 ` Josh
2013-07-14 16:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-14 17:14 ` Josh
2013-07-14 17:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-15 6:05 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2013-07-15 7:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-15 13:30 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-07-16 2:26 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2013-07-16 6:08 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-07-16 14:07 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-16 9:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-14 17:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-16 2:13 ` Miles Bader
2013-07-16 6:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-07-16 9:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-16 11:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-16 12:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-16 13:04 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-07-16 13:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-16 14:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-16 14:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-16 20:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-22 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-22 16:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-07-22 21:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-23 4:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-08-10 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-10 10:08 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-08-10 16:27 ` Drew Adams
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