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: Re: [PATCH] sequence manipulation functions Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:53:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oasmmwzt.fsf@gmail.com> <87bnolslph.fsf@gmail.com> <87zjc2dic0.fsf@gmail.com> <87ioimtzu0.fsf@gmail.com> <87lhngcnrc.fsf@gmail.com> <87k330cj3u.fsf@gmail.com> <87ioikcf39.fsf@gmail.com> <87h9y4c93e.fsf@gmail.com> <87389oggab.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87tx23sxah.fsf@gmail.com> <6902490d-9011-401f-8ae5-99181d808e06@default> <87y4re746j.fsf@gmail.com> <8761efi63c.fsf@gmail.com> <87k32uxd5k.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416232477 15630 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 13:54:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bozhidar Batsov , Leo Liu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 14:54:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqMl8-0003dE-Jo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 14:54:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48006 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqMl7-0001mh-9r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58489) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqMkm-0001ma-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqMkd-0002I0-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:54:04 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:20410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqMkd-0002Hf-Ps for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:53:55 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsUIAGA2ZVSnWBqE/2dsb2JhbABbgw6KYssMBAICgRwXAQEBAQEBfIQDAQEDAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSISwnRBAEBAQEGAQEBAR6RFAeESwWMC6kNhBofgnsBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AsUIAGA2ZVSnWBqE/2dsb2JhbABbgw6KYssMBAICgRwXAQEBAQEBfIQDAQEDAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSISwnRBAEBAQEGAQEBAR6RFAeESwWMC6kNhBofgnsBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,380,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="97181361" Original-Received: from 167-88-26-132.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([167.88.26.132]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 17 Nov 2014 08:53:54 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5DFEB8548; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:53:54 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87k32uxd5k.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolas Petton's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:46:47 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177402 Archived-At: >> A lot of Elisp's "standard library" shares this fundamental problem. >> The "prefix convention" is not useful only as a way to avoid name >> collisions (which would imply that it can be "ignored" for "core >> functions") but is also a way to structure the library, and so far the >> core functions have not being doing a very good job of it. > So, should I keep working on it? I was planning to start working on the > documentation. Would the Sequences section of the Elisp manual be the > right place? Sounds good, yes. Stefan