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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Per-window face support
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 16:57:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvin6hf85l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b8d8c42dc341ad85081e400f3fd20e1.squirrel@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:49:22 -0700")

>>> and Lisp would have no way to do _real_ object identity comparisons.
>> `eql` works just fine for object identity comparison.
> If it did, we wouldn't need both eq and eql.

I agree with you trivially because I contend that we don't need both eq and eql.
The definition of `eq` in Common-Lisp (and Scheme likewise for `eq?`)
allows it to be defined identically to `eql`.

Doing so leads to a simpler API for the Elisp programmer.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-17 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-07 23:42 [RFC PATCH] Per-window face support dancol
2018-06-08  2:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-08  3:18   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-08  3:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-08  9:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 10:29   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 14:24     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 15:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 15:30         ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 16:09           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 17:35           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-16 21:03             ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 18:20               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 18:48                 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 19:03                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 19:21                     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 20:51                       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 21:16                         ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 21:34                           ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-17 22:25                             ` Aliasing EQ to EQL (was: [RFC PATCH] Per-window face support) Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 23:49                               ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-18  2:14                                 ` Aliasing EQ to EQL Stefan Monnier
2018-06-18  3:48                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-18 13:56                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 19:23                   ` [RFC PATCH] Per-window face support Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 19:25                     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 19:32                       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 19:49                         ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 20:57                           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-06-18 23:22                             ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-19  1:21                               ` Stefan Monnier

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