From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Demetrios Obenour <demetriobenour@gmail.com>
Cc: 16963@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16963: A patch to create a list-with-tail primitive.
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:38:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5334B66A.1040908@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395963445.1956.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On 03/27/2014 04:37 PM, Demetrios Obenour wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 19:45 -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> On 03/24/2014 07:10 PM, Stefan wrote:
>>>> Since a comment in backquote.el said that backquote-list* needed to be a
>>>> primitive, here is an implementation of it as one, under the name
>>>> list-with-tail.
>>>
>>> I think it would make more sense to call it `list*'. Also it might make
>>> sense to change backquote.el so it uses this `list*' (tho probably only
>>> when passed with enough arguments).
>>
>> Agreed. On more that one occasion, I've wished we had a CL-less `list*'.
>> If you do add this feature, please make sure the existing list* compiler
>> macros keep working.
>>
> What about just deleting these compiler macros, and making cl-list* an
> alias for list*?
>
> There seems to be little point in keeping them if list* is a primitive.
The new list* doesn't have an opcode, but cons does.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-27 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-07 13:58 bug#16963: A patch to create a list-with-tail primitive Demetrios Obenour
2014-03-25 2:10 ` Stefan
2014-03-25 2:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-03-27 23:37 ` Demetrios Obenour
2014-03-27 23:38 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2014-03-28 0:43 ` Demetrios Obenour
2014-03-29 1:46 ` Demetrios Obenour
2014-03-29 1:48 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-03-29 13:30 ` Demetrios Obenour
2016-02-24 2:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-26 14:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-28 3:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-28 3:30 ` Drew Adams
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