From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
Cc: fgallina@gnu.org, Josh <josh@foxtail.org>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Sweeter Emacs Lisp
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 05:11:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7ggqdg6d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM9Zgm0ayqcwT7gr12XC2xVh2=t4aadQNLxX_rrSECQhx3MTCA@mail.gmail.com> (Bozhidar Batsov's message of "Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:30:35 +0300")
> I'll also feel it's about time the Emacs Lisp standard library got a bit of
> facelift. In a time when most Lisp have embraces `first` and `rest`
> where're still clinging to functions named `car` and `cdr` for instance.
> Sure, lib-cl has `cl-first` and `cl-rest`, but I can't see the harm in
> having those aliases in the "standard" lib.
`first' and `rest' are fine when handling lists, but not when using cons
cells which represent other data structures (e.g. pairs, tuples, you
name it).
Of course, using `pcase' you can extract the car and cdr without any
name at all (i.e. using the (FOO . BAR) notation instead).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-14 2:22 Sweeter Emacs Lisp fgallina
2013-07-14 11:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-07-14 11:53 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-14 12:38 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-07-14 13:25 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-07-14 14:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-14 14:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-14 16:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-14 19:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-15 3:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-07-15 5:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-07-16 20:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-07-17 14:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-17 15:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-07-16 2:15 ` Miles Bader
2013-07-16 9:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-14 16:18 ` Josh
2013-07-14 16:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-14 17:14 ` Josh
2013-07-14 17:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-15 6:05 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2013-07-15 7:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-15 13:30 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-07-16 2:26 ` Miles Bader
2013-07-16 6:08 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-07-16 14:07 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-16 9:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-07-14 17:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-16 2:13 ` Miles Bader
2013-07-16 6:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-07-16 9:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-16 11:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-16 12:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-16 13:04 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-07-16 13:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-16 14:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-16 14:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-16 20:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-22 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-22 16:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-07-22 21:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-23 4:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-08-10 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-10 10:08 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-08-10 16:27 ` Drew Adams
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