From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, 7408@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project?
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:18:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE3E43B.80802@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxp8kth3.fsf@gmail.com>
> ..., I've always
> wondered what the hell was the person adding another function of the
> same name thinking. To have a library that clobbers existing definitions
> is a no no even outside Emacs, let alone in the core.
>
> Is the explanation (I'm not familiar with the history) that at the time
> cl.el was added there was no dolist in core Emacs, so there was no
> perceived need to call it dolist* as in other similar cases (mapcar*,
> defun* etc)? (In that case my sincere disdain would go for the person
> who introduced dolist into subr.el later without addressing the naming
> clash.)
>
> Same with `dotimes'.
Strongly seconded. For my opinion on this see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01582.html
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-17 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <r6eo4w45.fsf@blue.sea.net>
[not found] ` <1213200935.4147.62.camel@cyberelk.elk>
2010-10-16 13:42 ` bug#7227: re-search-forward goes infinite loop with dash inside [] Jari Aalto
2010-10-16 13:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-16 21:25 ` bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project? Jari Aalto
2010-11-16 21:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-16 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-17 4:47 ` jari
2010-11-17 8:25 ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-17 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-17 12:47 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-17 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-18 22:02 ` bug#7408: 23.2.1 dolist -- subr.el and cl-macs differ with nil-block return Jari Aalto
2010-11-21 5:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-21 9:08 ` jari
2010-11-21 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-21 18:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-17 14:18 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2010-11-15 10:51 Jari Aalto
2010-11-21 23:19 ` bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project? MON KEY
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2010-10-16 9:16 bug#7227: re-search-forward goes infinite loop with dash inside [] Jari Aalto
2010-10-16 11:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-16 11:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-10-22 7:55 ` bug#7227: Close bts:gnu Jari Aalto
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