From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: purecopy-car and purecopy-cons Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:04:15 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296591403 19963 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2011 20:16:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sam Steingold Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 01 21:16:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PkMeU-0003Au-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:16:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54130 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PkMeT-0003jM-7a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:16:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54447 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PkMTB-0006pp-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PkMSu-00037Z-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:04:56 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:36791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PkMSZ-0002lm-59; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p11K4lRr021728; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:04:48 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E9D7F1300EB; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:04:15 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3735=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:135430 Archived-At: I'd rather not introduce such functions: - they're completely useless to non-maintainers. - they're just one-liners. - they waste (negligible) memory in Emacs after the dump, even though they're completely useless at that point. - their name doesn't make it clear what they do, so you need to look up their definition when they're used, whereas the corresponding lambda expression is crystal clear. Stefan