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: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:44:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <86k2dk77w6.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <642fd4b4-8b1c-a537-5a5f-6940691ec4b9@gmail.com> <8760oyntm5.fsf@tromey.com> <87zim8kk4q.fsf@tromey.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476665152 27309 195.159.176.226 (17 Oct 2016 00:45:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tom@tromey.com, eller.helmut@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 17 02:45:48 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 1bvw3g-0005XO-1P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:45:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58289 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvw3i-0001j4-6L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvw2v-0001hK-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvw2u-0004IC-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35776) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvw2b-000432-OI; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bvw2b-0001lv-0a; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:44:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zim8kk4q.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:35:17 -0600) 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:208345 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 have a feeling that problems will arise where a certain name needs to be used in one way as a variable or function, and another way for comparisons with eq. I can't come up with any case that fails, so this is just a suspicion. -- 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.