From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: make prog2 a macro Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:34:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475872521 13707 195.159.176.226 (7 Oct 2016 20:35:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 20:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: me@wilfred.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 07 22:35:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bsbrP-0002pv-AZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 22:35:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38350 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsbrN-0004wF-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsbrF-0004tn-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsbrD-0006ra-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33723) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsbr5-0006jE-9I; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bsbr3-0004yl-Go; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:34:53 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:46:00 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208067 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I initially defined prog2 and NOT prog1, because prog2 subsumes prog1 nicely as in (prog2 nil ...). Back then, I was trying in every way to keep Emacs small. This change will cause increased inconvenience in the Lisp debugger for interpreted code. That is the only effect that the change will have on users, and it is negative. I suggest not changing it. It works fine. It compiles into good code. Changing it could break something. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.