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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: acorallo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Emacs object type hierarchy
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:57:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1qv5jn-0002UA-4h@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54888B71AB94870122A0804EF3D9A@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 22 Oct 2023 16:11:00 +0000)

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  > Yes, it would be good to have the Elisp type hierarchy
  > spelled out.  This is what the Common Lisp doc says
  > about its hierarchy, FWIW:

Have we ever defined such a hierarchy for Emacs Lisp?
(I don't think so.)

If not, do we want to?  What would would that involve?

And would having such a defined hierarchy tend to lead us to think we
need to do other work -- work which, arguably, we don't really need to
do?


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  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-24  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-22  8:44 Emacs object type hierarchy Andrea Corallo
2023-10-22  9:08 ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-22  9:37   ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-23 15:08     ` Andrea Corallo
2023-10-23 16:36       ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-23 16:48         ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-10-24  8:28         ` Andrea Corallo
2023-10-22 16:11 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-10-24  0:57   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2023-10-24  2:03     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-24  8:39     ` Andrea Corallo
2023-10-24  9:32       ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-22 22:08 ` Yuan Fu
2023-10-23 15:06   ` Andrea Corallo
2023-10-23 15:49     ` John Yates
2023-10-24  3:37     ` Yuan Fu
2023-10-23 15:20 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-10-23 15:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24  9:21     ` Andrea Corallo
2023-10-24 11:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 12:02         ` Andrea Corallo
2023-10-24 12:53           ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-15 17:28           ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-15 17:40             ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-17  9:04               ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-18 19:25                 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-17  9:19               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-17  9:38                 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-17  9:41                 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-02-18 19:23                 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-18 19:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-18 19:37                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-19  7:52                     ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-19 16:51                       ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-26 17:50                         ` Andrea Corallo
2024-03-01  8:36                           ` Andrea Corallo
2024-03-01  8:56                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-01  9:46                               ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-16 20:31             ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2024-02-18 19:14               ` Andrea Corallo

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