From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: (*) -> 1 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:37:11 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87bkmxkpzg.fsf@web.de> <878ri1av5j.fsf@telefonica.net> <87ilh4kgqo.fsf@web.de> <87zgagakh5.fsf@telefonica.net> <87cz7cka06.fsf@web.de> <87v8l49t8w.fsf@telefonica.net> <87h6wo9fjb.fsf@telefonica.net> <87edrsufdd.fsf@web.de> <878ri09bsh.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21662"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.9+54 (af2080d) (2022-11-21) Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?B?w5NzY2Fy?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 16:29:40 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pIWrE-0005RI-Bm for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:29:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pIWr4-0004Al-IS; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pIQtb-0000gs-UA for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:07:43 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pIQta-0003YL-El for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:07:43 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.7.243]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000010394D.0000000063C90860.00002445; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:07:43 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878ri09bsh.fsf@telefonica.net> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:29:29 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:966 Archived-At: * Óscar Fuentes [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 Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/