From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cl-defun vs defun (was: Should diff.elisp.xfuncname match cl-lib macros?)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:41:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1h5LkD-00045F-6H@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ecyg7gp.fsf_-_@tcd.ie> (contovob@tcd.ie)
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> As described under "(cl) Argument Lists", cl-defun extends defun to
> support CL argument lists (with default values for optional arguments,
> keyword arguments, etc.)
Long ago, adding these features to Emacs would have been bloat and would
have caused problems for users. But not nowadays. So I see no reason
to oppose it.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-17 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-15 16:42 Should diff.elisp.xfuncname match cl-lib macros? Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-15 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-16 3:56 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-16 15:33 ` cl-defun vs defun (was: Should diff.elisp.xfuncname match cl-lib macros?) Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-17 2:41 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-03-16 15:30 ` Should diff.elisp.xfuncname match cl-lib macros? Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-16 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-16 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-16 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-16 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-16 21:55 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-16 21:54 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-17 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-17 8:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-03-17 15:22 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-03-17 21:33 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-18 1:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-18 21:02 ` Juri Linkov
2019-05-13 1:40 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-20 15:03 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
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