From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: request for a new function, say, `sequence' Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:11:45 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030326001145.GA16603@gnu.org> References: <200303250015.JAA06592@etlken.m17n.org> <200303250050.JAA06631@etlken.m17n.org> <200303250057.h2P0vBj6016367@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200303250125.KAA06703@etlken.m17n.org> <32627.1048557446@theforce.Stanford.EDU> <200303250208.LAA06802@etlken.m17n.org> <1191.1048560083@theforce.Stanford.EDU> <200303250446.NAA06974@etlken.m17n.org> <200303251527.h2PFR0lO018653@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200303252311.IAA08003@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048637916 29715 80.91.224.249 (26 Mar 2003 00:18:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:18:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 26 01:18:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xyck-0007j9-00 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:18:34 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18xydt-0002lJ-00 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:19:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xyYu-0003Xw-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:14:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xyXb-00029m-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:13:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xyX5-0001rk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xyW9-0001OK-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:11:45 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18xyW9-0004jJ-00; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:11:45 -0500 Original-To: Kenichi Handa Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303252311.IAA08003@etlken.m17n.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12614 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12614 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:11:37AM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote: > > Anyway, blue is the color for my bykeshed, what is yours ? > > What is "bykeshed"? My dictionary doesn't have that word. I guess he meant `bikeshed' (I've never seen it spelled `byke'), which is a reference to the tendency of people to argue more vociferously over minor issues than major ones. BTW, pale blue-green: I keep wanting to suggest that this function be called `iota', after the APL function with similar functionality. I think various common-lisp/schemes versions of this function use this name (though I seem to recall that the function signature is usually (iota COUNT &optional START INTERVAL) -Miles -- Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?