From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <3bd09dca-dcdc-7569-e5fb-f6b53397af9d@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="128204"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 03 05:46:47 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5aZ-000XEm-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 05:46:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47144 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5aY-0001yi-FM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5XF-0005V2-O8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44727) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5XF-0006IW-Ed; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5XC-0001hK-5d; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 2 May 2020 18:03:59 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248628 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. ]]] > Can we agree, though, that 'concat' and 'append' are too far from the > "long-a🐍🐍" end of the spectrum? Could you restate the point in plain English? I don't get it. 'append' is an ancient, fundamental Lisp function from before 1960. 'concat' is not quite so old, but the Lisp Machine had it in the late 70s and maybe other Lisp implementations had it earlier. That is too old a tradition to mess with. 'substring' is equally old. As soon as there were strings, there would have been these two functions. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)