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: Splitting GNU ELPA Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 00:01:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> <405FCFAB-30E4-4F98-81DA-3B09933E86D0@gnu.org> <83eerh9ue3.fsf@gnu.org> <83k11881ki.fsf@gnu.org> 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="52277"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 20 06:03:27 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 1jbFx0-000DWC-M4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 06:03:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49716 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbFwz-0003ZD-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 00:03:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbFvN-00017a-Ql for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 00:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39189) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbFvN-0004kj-H6 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 00:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jbFvH-000234-Cj; Wed, 20 May 2020 00:01:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83k11881ki.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 19 May 2020 17:02:53 +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:251011 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. ]]] I don't think that #(+ %1 %2) is very difficult to learn. So I don't see a significant downside in supporting this construct. On the other hand, for that particular function, you could write '+. > I can already see the discussions in forums about "what's the difference > between #(f % 1) and (lambda (x) (f x 1))", "when should I use which", But the answer is simple: they are equivalent, the choice is a matter of taste. > If we want to shorten anonymous functions we could start with something > like (λ (x) (f x 1)), which you can get with > prettify-symbols-mode already. That is not much of a simplification, and think it is a drawback to display different text from what is really in the file. #(f % 1) avoids that drawback. -- 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)