From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 13:07:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <3bd09dca-dcdc-7569-e5fb-f6b53397af9d@yandex.ru> <83bln6s5on.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="38938"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 19:08:04 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUvcS-000A0P-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 19:08:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55286 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUvcR-0008TH-6A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 13:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUvby-0007ui-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 13:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUvbx-0005JC-RG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 13:07:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:27145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUvbq-0005BE-2H; Sat, 02 May 2020 13:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id A8E9E450843; Sat, 2 May 2020 13:07:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 8307D450840; Sat, 2 May 2020 13:07:23 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1588439243; bh=aVpgW3Tnoh2c1i7N077GVia6D/h83lWG7Pi2atkv5lc=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=Xuo3ICqc7RjSUytrk2rzDKPXzE15BayqWjkokPC3vFY6Fv2q6bZuS/winIWiwXad/ 1i64M4T06Jc3DWFr1qFdt9WeS/Q+Eb4kPBV9E0oiNwKKigmu8wXQWIkviDnXT+zYXo jEvh+PCvbxj7UQKqZQG72BPhfAKugNOiW1SeR28J7Ntdws0gmD8JKGQ/Bok7RL6E13 A4okMUtOITQtwTNKF5qcl5i8BEAbhyjHZtII5ABozPVzNIQJUhTI2UypiU038XPY0Z kXTvujwmnlkB7EXDVTKY3UoijXQHG/NHLGUNnvS4lpVcd0As6+dCJ5ejAG7BibMQj1 j7JPkKDLt4X0A== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [216.154.3.202]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1CAE7120743; Sat, 2 May 2020 13:07:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83bln6s5on.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 02 May 2020 18:43:52 +0300") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/02 12:48:41 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248505 Archived-At: > But concat is not only about strings. Will we have 3 different > aliases? And what ab out the case where each argument is of a > different type? And here I am regretting I jumped on `concat`. I do think the name is not ideal, but I don't think we can do much better given what it does and how often it's used in Emacs. So, while I don't think it's a good example of naming, it's a particularly poor example to choose to argue for a renaming. Stefan