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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Elisps rplacd vs CL's one
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 09:02:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oahqlgpo.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)

Hi all,

Emacs Lisp's rplacd and Common Lisp's RPLACD are called the same, but
behave differently (ELisp's one returns the NEWCDR and CL's one returns
the modified cons).  What is the reason for that?  Is it an accident?
While I do understand that EL ≠ CL, having a function called the same in
both, doing roughly the same thing, but not quite, seems a bit
misleading, and I was just curious whether there was a deep reason for
that.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



             reply	other threads:[~2015-08-29  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-29  7:02 Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-08-29 22:05 ` Elisps rplacd vs CL's one Stefan Monnier
2015-08-30  4:51   ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found] <mailman.120.1440831791.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-29  8:01 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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