From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shouldn't records be sequences?
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:14:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtv1opljr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu7gbpst.fsf@gmail.com> ("Štěpán Němec"'s message of "Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:02:26 +0200")
> IOW, if records really are "much like a vector" (to quote the manual
> section), is there any reason not to make the other sequence functions
> support them?
Mostly, the lack of a reason to add them?
> Alternatively, if their being like a vector is only an implementation
> detail, does it make sense to expose that in Lisp at all and
> document it?
We should probably document it less, indeed, or clarify that it's
a historical accident and code shouldn't rely on it.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-12 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-12 9:35 Shouldn't records be sequences? Štěpán Němec
2020-04-12 12:03 ` Štěpán Němec
2020-04-12 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-12 16:46 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-12 17:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-12 18:49 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-12 17:02 ` Štěpán Němec
2020-04-12 19:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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