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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>,
	Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: master baf1a7a4a0: Turn gv-synthetic-place into a function
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:27:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488FFE4EBF50F64CD65E108F34E9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czbne5it.fsf@gmail.com>

> FWIW, I learned Lisp on the street 

What street was that? ;-)

> and I don't think the meaning of
> “generalized variable” or “place” is especially hard to guess.  It may
> not be obvious for the uninitiated, but there are worse pitfalls.
> 
> Perhaps “everybody” learns what an l-value is in their compilers class,
> but I find that term pretty opaque.

I agree.  Had to read the Wikipedia page.

If we want to reference something non-Emacs,
maybe CL setf etc. doc is a better touchstone?


  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-22 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-18 16:13 master baf1a7a4a0: Turn gv-synthetic-place into a function Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-19  6:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-19 11:38   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-20  7:28     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-20  7:50       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-20 11:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-20 14:36         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-20 16:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21  5:40             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-21 14:19               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21  8:35             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-21  8:32           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-21 13:52             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-21 14:20               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-21 15:31                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 16:14                   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-22 10:47                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-22 11:53                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-22 14:27                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-22 16:30                         ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-22 17:27                           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-09-22 17:47                             ` [External] : " Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-23 15:07                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-22 12:26                       ` Yuri Khan
2022-09-22 14:11                       ` Howard Melman
2022-09-22 16:45                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-22 19:55                           ` Howard Melman
2022-09-23  6:19                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-23 13:42                               ` Howard Melman
2022-09-23 15:49                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-23 18:05                                   ` Howard Melman
2022-09-23 15:54                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-23 18:11                                   ` Howard Melman
2022-09-23 19:00                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-23  9:41                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-23 10:53                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-23 17:26                               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-22 10:56                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-30 23:18                     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-30 23:30                 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-19 12:06   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-20  7:22     ` Michael Heerdegen

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