From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 02:31:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0c88192c-3c33-46ed-95cb-b4c6928016e3@default> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="22972"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, pcr910303@icloud.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 08:32:31 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 1jWwYf-0005rJ-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 08:32:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55186 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWwYe-0006g1-HK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 02:32:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWwXl-0005zE-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 02:31:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWwXj-0007LT-NE; Fri, 08 May 2020 02:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jWwXh-0001uG-Ey; Fri, 08 May 2020 02:31:29 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 07 May 2020 22:47:49 -0400) 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:249245 Archived-At: > My guess: he doesn't know dash.el Neither do I, I looked it up. The manual for dash.el doesn't explain what dash.el is about, it advertises it self as a 'modern list library for Emacs'. >From the looks it contains a big mix of various functions that operate on lists, anaphoric variants of Emacs lisp ones, some functions borrowed from Haskell, some functions to work on tree, and a thin layer for various Emacs Lisp functions to follow the dash.el libraries internal naming converntion of prefixing everything with a dash, and the Scheme naming style for predicate. At the end, I still do not know what dash.el does, or what to use it for. s.el seems to be much simpler, and a simple layer over strings, often aliasing standard Emacs Lisp functions to follow the Scheme convention of using a question mark to indicate a predicate. Some of which look useful in function, but have a non-standard naming convention.