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: Arguing for a nilp function and where to put it Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:02:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ql416bp.fsf@gnu.org> 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="37434"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 03 05:03:37 2023 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 1pjATp-0009Ym-DB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2023 05:03:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjAT7-0007x5-FX; Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:02:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjAT4-0007wi-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:02:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjAT4-0002if-EM; Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:02:50 -0400 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=AzCIYgnUUeBb47e+MjL/ZZ04tI51iosqV2rP839UsFU=; b=MfGUW03RSBGU il+WaSLl8jzNiEhuuaa7uaI62hXc8NG8Ih/0YJkG5yrTzT/wA/mgH0+QUT4tSHmdOilP/+IhBm8e4 v2P3VVOpOLosEJzJNg2POJlbPYNAbohovg+ZHjjAWQzFtKcZa5wsaHZi0IGevMpA+FaVSAs8+Ecs2 xkhMlRU4Ap97wLeGOv/e2yg/dQzsqBNBss61ZfOtg1Sp4AfwAKh6IxmR4/d1x5eNpcsvmLDy0SWX8 mVNd9bt4jLx9rvBW5XtNQ5oY5YGSYoFD/R3HILioQuHmJXlzaAephcO+Nf3fuVXayEaLYnXGuNE5k 7DGELYRL9oxi9du5ZwIdnw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjAT4-0001ge-0z; Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:02:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez on Sat, 1 Apr 2023 09:09:22 +0200) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:305058 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 think `null' was among the first Lisp functions to be imagined and given a name, at the very start of the invention of Lisp, before there was an implementation -- along with `car', `cdr' and `cons'. The convention of naming predicates to end in `p' must have come after that. -- 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)