From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David O'Toole <dto@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: un-deprecating CL
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:25:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IXP1b-0003vu-PE@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r6kxdi3z.fsf@gnu.org> (message from David O'Toole on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:35:28 -0400)
> `every', `substitute', `find' and `subsetp' have the ugly CL keyword
> arguments, so I don't want to add them.
It isn't clear to me what exactly is so bad about keyword arguments,
or what alternative (if any) you have in mind for dealing sensibly
with functions accepting more than one or two optional arguments.
The fact that they accept so many optional arguments is one thing I
don't like about them. It is too much complexity. If you showed me
lots of places that wanted to call a simple `union' function, I'd say
sure. But adding a CL-style `union' function is another story.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 16:42 un-deprecating CL Joe Wells
2007-09-14 17:32 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-15 2:08 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-14 19:21 ` Karl Fogel
2007-09-15 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-15 18:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-15 18:14 ` Leo
2007-09-15 21:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-15 19:02 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-15 19:14 ` martin rudalics
2007-09-17 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 5:58 ` martin rudalics
2007-09-15 19:41 ` T. V. Raman
2007-09-17 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-18 14:59 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-19 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-19 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-20 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-20 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-20 19:15 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-21 22:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-19 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-15 19:52 ` T. V. Raman
2007-09-17 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 2:25 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-17 15:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 17:05 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-18 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-18 7:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-18 19:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-18 23:48 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-19 15:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-19 21:17 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-17 4:35 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-17 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 22:25 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-09-18 14:43 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-16 21:56 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-17 3:58 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-16 21:46 ` David O'Toole
2007-09-16 22:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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