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: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <3bd09dca-dcdc-7569-e5fb-f6b53397af9d@yandex.ru> <454538d1-ca61-0ffa-10d9-2d9df657e8fc@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="94341"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 05:12:02 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 1jVRWT-000ORC-V1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 05:12:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36076 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRWS-0004GA-U1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36716) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVQ-0002Yb-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVP-000722-PH; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVF-0008I4-Ik; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <454538d1-ca61-0ffa-10d9-2d9df657e8fc@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 3 May 2020 15:51:24 +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:248774 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. ]]] > The names sound very close and offer little to remind of the difference > between their purposes. It is out of the question to change old traditional names such as append and concat. However, you will soon learn what they do, if you keep programming in Emacs Lisp, because they are used often. -- 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)