From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: push and pop Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:56:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1105132512.26051.75.camel@turtle.as.arizona.edu> <1105293235.16765.10.camel@slider> <200501091942.j09Jglp17173@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105301437 14903 80.91.229.6 (9 Jan 2005 20:10:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:10:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jdsmith@as.arizona.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 09 21:10:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CnjOM-00015s-00 for ; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:10:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CnjZp-00005S-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:22:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CnjY9-0007dt-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:20:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CnjXx-0007Yk-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:20:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CnjXx-0007VD-BV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CnjBC-0007Wp-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:56:50 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CnjAu-0007f7-KI; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:56:32 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200501091942.j09Jglp17173@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sun, 9 Jan 2005 13:42:47 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32078 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32078 Luc Teirlinck writes: > JD Smith wrote: > > Is there a technical reason the subr push and pop can't behave > like the cl versions? > > I would guess because Elisp does not have `setf' and hence not this > CL-type very general notion of setting a "place". My guess as well. So the question would be whether it would desirable if Elisp were to get setf as a standard macro. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum