From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: critique: my-first-function Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 21:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <690bad58-aff2-42c7-8081-490f810390b2@default> References: <20160612183901.e51dc7f75549ed99cfd47363@speakeasy.net> <20160614214734.128b4c55eaf6b66a7b3ef537@speakeasy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465965889 20418 80.91.229.3 (15 Jun 2016 04:44:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 04:44:49 +0000 (UTC) To: "James K. Lowden" , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 06:44:33 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bD2gq-0006Jw-Te for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 06:44:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bD2gp-0005w2-RN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:44:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53021) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bD2gQ-0005vs-Rl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bD2gL-00089R-T7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:44:06 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:34784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bD2gL-00089N-Km for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u5F4i00N017690 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 15 Jun 2016 04:44:00 GMT Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u5F4hxda010805 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 15 Jun 2016 04:44:00 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0016.oracle.com (abhmp0016.oracle.com [141.146.116.22]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u5F4hx32002299; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 04:43:59 GMT In-Reply-To: <20160614214734.128b4c55eaf6b66a7b3ef537@speakeasy.net> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6744.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110444 Archived-At: > Is the "*" a convention of some kind that I should be aware of? Sort of. Some functions that are similar to other functions use the same base name as the latter, but with a `*' suffix. This is more prominent in some lisps. For example, Common Lisp has `do' and `do*'. `do*' is to `do' as `let*' is to `let': the bindings of the `*' versions are evaluated sequentially.