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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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       reply	other threads:[~2023-01-19  8:37 UTC|newest]

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2023-01-19  8:37                   ` Jean Louis [this message]
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2023-01-19 14:54                   ` (*) -> 1 Jean Louis
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2023-01-20  7:05                       ` Jean Louis
2023-01-20  8:52                         ` Tassilo Horn
2023-01-20 12:46                           ` Jean Louis
2023-01-20 13:02                             ` Tassilo Horn
2023-01-20 16:06                               ` Jean Louis
2023-01-21  8:19                                 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-01-22  4:30                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-22  6:55                                     ` Jean Louis
2023-01-22 10:56                                       ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-22 14:34                                     ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-23  2:23                                       ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-23  5:37                                       ` Jean Louis
2023-01-23  5:55                                       ` Jean Louis
2023-01-24  2:33                                         ` Emanuel Berg

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