From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recent change in master breaks async package update using paradox Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:59:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86pogo4vty.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <8360igof0k.fsf@gnu.org> <867f2w4qdk.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491566409 32203 195.159.176.226 (7 Apr 2017 12:00:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 12:00:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 07 14:00:05 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cwSYc-0007V8-GG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:00:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50313 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwSYf-0002Zy-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41343) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwSXy-0002ZV-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwSXv-0005aq-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48690 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cwSXv-0005aB-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:59:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cwSXj-0002DD-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:59:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:DLoUF7PJnbGyx61A5/ce1Yd+2oE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:213741 Archived-At: > I think there are only a few functions that wants a sequence but not a > record: elt, copy-sequence, concat, reverse, and sort. In the context > of structure operations, the most likely function would be copy-sequence. BTW, why not make copy-sequence and elt work on records? After all, they are "sequences" (of fixed length and of heterogeneous values, but still). Stefan