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: dash.el [was: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs] Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 22:40:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0c88192c-3c33-46ed-95cb-b4c6928016e3@default> <87wo5mc04t.fsf@fastmail.fm> 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="114507"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 04:41:44 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 1jXyO0-000Tgy-8j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 04:41:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35248 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXyNz-0005PN-8e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 22:41:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39764) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXyN1-0003rn-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 22:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54643) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXyN1-0002pH-4F; Sun, 10 May 2020 22:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXyMx-0007O0-A5; Sun, 10 May 2020 22:40:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Sun, 10 May 2020 09:55:05 +0200) 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:249744 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. ]]] Thanks for the explanation. Now I think I basically understand the design of dash.el. I wonder if there really need to be anaphoric versions and functional versions of each construct. I think it would be easy to define a macro thaat can handle both cases. FUN-NAME for a function to call (lambda ...) for an anonymous function to call (apply EXP) to evaluate EXP to get the function to call LIST-EXPRESSION for anaphora WDYT? -- 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)