From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: list3i etc.
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:46:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwuej0b3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51385E40.1030309@yandex.ru>
Dmitry Antipov writes:
> [R]eading the standard literally, we should eventually drop car and
> cdr since they're not "mnemonically significant" everywhere beyond
> IBM704 :-).
Lack of mnemonic significance here is a feature.[1]
Footnotes:
[1] At least now that the convention is universal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-07 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-07 6:22 list3i etc Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-07 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-07 8:58 ` Dmitry Antipov
2013-03-07 9:11 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-07 9:30 ` Dmitry Antipov
2013-03-07 22:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2013-03-07 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-07 21:17 ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-09 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
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