all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 35c893d 2/2: Move gensym to core Elisp
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:50:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170913125023.GA26999@holos.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlgliepvy.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org>

On 13/09/17 at 08:40am, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > According to [1] (page 53), MACLISP didn't have a visible
> > gensym-counter, and instead used an integer argument to gensym to allow
> > programs to set an internal counter. According to [2], it was only
> > decided in 1989 to have *gensym-counter* in CL, so before then having an
> > integer argument made sense if you wanted to manipulate the gensym
> > state.

Thanks for digging that up.

> > but I wonder if people who use an integer argument here are the type
> > of people to use `cl' instead of `cl-lib'.
> 
> I think using the plural here is rather optimistic.  I'd already be
> surprised if there's even just one user of that functionality.

Only one way to find out! I suppose I'll apply the patch I sent earlier.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-13 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170912151313.7686.92637@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20170912151315.C449D2087D@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2017-09-12 16:48   ` [Emacs-diffs] master 35c893d 2/2: Move gensym to core Elisp Stefan Monnier
2017-09-12 17:21     ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-12 17:35       ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-12 18:28       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-12 18:51         ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-13  3:48         ` Alex
2017-09-13 12:40           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-13 12:50             ` Mark Oteiza [this message]
2017-09-28  7:05               ` Alex

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20170913125023.GA26999@holos.localdomain \
    --to=mvoteiza@udel.edu \
    --cc=agrambot@gmail.com \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.