From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cl-defun vs defun (was: Should diff.elisp.xfuncname match cl-lib macros?) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:41:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wol0qecg.fsf@tcd.ie> <877ecyg7gp.fsf_-_@tcd.ie> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="45844"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 17 03:58:25 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h5M0F-000Bp8-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 03:58:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h5M0E-0008G9-U0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:58:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44615) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h5M02-0008DL-PR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39644) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h5LkE-0006Er-0w; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h5LkD-00045F-6H; Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:41:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877ecyg7gp.fsf_-_@tcd.ie> (contovob@tcd.ie) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:234251 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. ]]] > 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)