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: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:26:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <01d516b3-86ca-fdf3-73f0-49b2e6930499@gmail.com> <87ilv6bdqi.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="26855"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, tom@logand.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 05:28:21 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 1n39Wf-0006p0-5M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:28:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46918 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39We-0002rR-3k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:28:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39UV-0008S2-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:26:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=38764 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 1n39UU-0008Ko-Of; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:26:06 -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=szJxHHLkNQooMVtKrJ20o61WhnbBU7kibx8582s2UCI=; b=KybaDolP+xs2 mPYRcR8Ll1/UDC5a1SzlgquAPgmJN9YQ3TiKt9X7iVPorvy/xwjJRYfoeO8EM88XQNbRz5GNy3atZ LjHWIav2kEKuBd4pk8bnrHaCy8//6dDIg2WLkugzqX5pkhbhTje1BcX6wM25aUnRG89MMedrB4f85 pLDgzuuQuaE426qOb34tfSZ5Cmj+aFE/Y/BzKzv1E9rFTI8/O8gObqzJri6V5Npj7m/oypiLxRU92 733cS/AfJYDdIfRFgjsmVY6AfUKx9AZKtEZmv41ipCEchRXEjyXZFYnutJllABUv4/QYy8t/whfyC bRFPnM6iEh6tvkw7+L4yGg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39UV-0005DH-0U; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:26:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:00:58 -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:283704 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. ]]] > It's not just "not portably": for compiled code, closures do not carry > the name of their captures variables. Now I understand why you're proposing a new data type. I think it would be simpler overall to make the API for using these maximally similar to the API for closures. -- 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)