From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87o8ivumn5.fsf@telefonica.net> <83sg7xrgr5.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7odrdwy.fsf@gnu.org> <86sg7w39fh.fsf@163.com> <83pn30pku5.fsf@gnu.org> <86wnx8otoj.fsf@163.com> <834kkbp9vr.fsf@gnu.org> <87czyxuxw6.fsf@db48x.net> <87y2hlt82w.fsf@db48x.net> <87lfdlvsw4.fsf@logand.com> <83h7o8ncly.fsf@gnu.org> <87pn2wudab.fsf@db48x.net> <87mty0c3m1.fsf@gnus.org> <83czywnb86.fsf@gnu.org> <87pn2wstw1.fsf@logand.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11008"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tomas Hlavaty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 06:40:13 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 1ktOmq-0002l8-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 06:40:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38854 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOmp-0000NO-UV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOld-0007Kz-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45408) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOlc-0003b1-HJ; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOlY-0007ki-1g; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87pn2wstw1.fsf@logand.com> (message from Tomas Hlavaty on Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:12:46 +0100) 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:261886 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. ]]] > What about length= length/= length< length<= length> length>= > predicates? One of the basic design guides of Emacs Lisp is rejection of the idea of adding more functions in the name of symmetry. If there is a use for longer-than-p, or length> we could call it, it may be worth adding that function, but let's skip the other 5 if they are not actually needed. -- 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)