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: Naming FCRs Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: 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="40206"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 05:17:34 2021 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 1n1hS2-000AE8-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:17:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53816 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hS0-0005Wo-HH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:17:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPz-0001Hq-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=45056 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPz-0003Fn-2P; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:27 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=ONs/bfs1NzwkeEQZS5CWzF4WZbT8ETdHxGZjpNypf2o=; b=UZlD9Mk7Q725 yb658h0ojt/18PU1kysCzUAHrzKFyFxW6ewXQaWz1HWpPXFP/d0ugbvIMYkD5yUxngM/34FdqlOOL jH3aFooIhoctLz/65vH4YoZLeJPCFAILGl1/eYpK+IZiq4DLMtpiqyv3zY1xStEVMYXTSS22kFffd aOEBibp8DEQD2HG51vvv0CG5Uas/tE0BIA8MInmL2GC9SrEr5Cw3/V5fkauUVR9zUWz3iJDl6AcPg 1bE/7fW+g+w9gX0qc/A8xyBYYM+seC61rG7CbJ9k2lHXYoiz05xnf1LauBzhBy13dFDELCeduob++ Kc4PgWrB8Rk78YCLfFiF2Q==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPz-0001cv-9t; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 26 Dec 2021 17:04:25 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:283382 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 current name stands for FunCallableRecords, but this name is clearly > wrong, since it makes it sound like I'm defining a special kind of > record that just happen to be callable as a function, whereas FCRs are > really fundamentally functions that happen to have slots and a type, > like records. I think I understand what that means, but I'm not confident I do. Would you please show us an example to make the meaning clear? For instance, is this basically equivalent to a closure that you could create with `lambda'? If so, what is the benefit of adding this construct? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)