From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: moving more cl seq/mapping support into core Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:32:55 +0900 Message-ID: <87wrq8z4ew.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285529608 6978 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2010 19:33:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:33:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 26 21:33:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzwyR-00065j-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:33:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33524 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OzwyQ-0003FG-Iu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:33:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59195 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OzwyK-0003FB-CY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzwyJ-0007Qj-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41039) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzwyI-0007Qc-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzwyE-00062X-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:33:10 +0200 Original-Received: from 218.231.154.125.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.154.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:33:10 +0200 Original-Received: from miles by 218.231.154.125.eo.eaccess.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:33:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.231.154.125.eo.eaccess.ne.jp System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:zPnt4YQzmPSv8uXSbWpMpm0R4Yw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130936 Archived-At: Leo writes: >> Aside from that, the keyword-based interfaces of these functions does >> not fit the style of Emacs Lisp very well. > > But all the major build blocks like define-derived-mode, defcustom, > define-minor-mode, easy-menu-define etc use keyword arguments. Emacs sometimes uses keywords for complex top-level nobody-expects-them-to-be-fast functions/macros. CL uses keywords for just about every function in the language. There's a distinct difference in style, and that should be respected. -Miles -- Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.