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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 26338@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>,
	Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
	Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 08:54:44 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1258a7b8-6c73-4cef-ab23-bc324a2c6f12@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-8OoZifeWZ8qQr04TFT_3PxCwCOh+gTpLtvLSNOh1DOaw@mail.gmail.com>

> Regarding Drew's concerns about extending cl-loop with more non-Common
> Lisp things, I just don't see that as a problem.

It depends on what one considers "a problem".  I think it
is a problem for `cl-', which was intended for Common Lisp
emulation, to become a dumping ground for anyone's idea of
a cool thing to add to Emacs.  That's not what it's for.

We've already had a couple of things unrelated to CL that
were misguidedly added to `cl-'.  We should not continue
that practice (and we really should remove those from the
`cl-' namespace).

There is nothing preventing Emacs from adding any constructs
it wants.  There just is no reason why the `cl-' namespace
(and the `cl*.el' files) should be polluted with stuff that
is not Common Lisp emulation.

A user of `cl-loop' should be able to expect Common Lisp
`loop', or as close to it as we can get.

> I suppose it would be nice to have a more easily extensible
> looping macro, like iterate [1].  That would be quite a bit
> of work though.

As for `iterate': If this is what you mean:
https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/

then I'm all in favor of it.  I much prefer it to `loop'.
But I don't see anyone stepping forward to add it to Emacs.

Even then, I would probably prefer that we add it to the
`cl-' namespace and stay as close as possible to emulating
the Common Lisp `iterate' (no, it is not part of the CL
language, but yes, it is something developed for/with CL).

There are lots of users of CL, and lots of CL code.  Both
should find a simple, straightforward path to Emacs.  We
should minimize any differences between Emacs emulations
and the things being emulated.

But again, nothing prevents Emacs adding a different
construct that does exactly what you want, with all the
bells and whistles you think are improvements over `loop'
or `iterate' or whatever.

That should not be in the `cl-' namespace, and we should
not confuse users by passing it off as (even a partial)
emulation of a Common Lisp construct.  That's all.

Just one opinion.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-07 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-02 12:41 bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer Tino Calancha
2017-04-02 15:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-04-03  3:58   ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-02 22:10 ` Juri Linkov
2017-04-03  4:01   ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-03  6:13   ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-03 23:35     ` Juri Linkov
2017-04-04  1:37       ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-04  2:20         ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-04 14:32         ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-04-05 11:58           ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-05 13:11             ` npostavs
2017-04-07 10:06               ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-07 14:40                 ` Drew Adams
2017-04-08  4:45                   ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-08  5:49                     ` Drew Adams
2017-04-08 15:29                       ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-08 15:42                         ` Drew Adams
2017-04-08 11:46                     ` Philipp Stephani
2017-04-08 13:42                       ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-08 14:41                         ` Philipp Stephani
2017-04-08 15:20                           ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-22 19:42                             ` Philipp Stephani
2017-04-08 15:38                           ` npostavs
2017-04-22 19:36                             ` Philipp Stephani
2017-04-05 22:03             ` Juri Linkov
2017-04-07 14:47               ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-07 15:28                 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-07 15:54                   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-04-08 13:49                   ` Tino Calancha
2020-09-15 15:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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