From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (*) -> 1
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:37:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y8kBN8dHJx+1K5Vs@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878ri09bsh.fsf@telefonica.net>
* Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> [2023-01-18 17:09]:
> Sure^2. I was talking about _why_ (*) and (* a) are supported in Elisp.
> Once the language designer chose to support those expressions and
> decided that they must return a number (instead of something else like a
> partially applied function) the value they shall return comes from the
> properties of the underlying operation, of course.
OK and I understood that somebody decided to include that.
Why did they decide to include it?
Do you think it is only for `apply' reasons?
--
Jean
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