From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 2e9111813b: Add two classic Common Lisp macro-writing macros
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:35:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ee2140va.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0btpm85.fsf@athena.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:48:42 -0700)
> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:48:42 -0700
>
> > (And why not use "gensym" instead of the wordier "uninterned symbol"?
> > that's why you introduced that terminology, right?)
>
> I wanted to use "gensym" in the description of cl-with-gensyms because
> of the name of that macro. But otherwise, I was thinking that it's a
> less familiar term in Elisp than it is in CL, and that "uninterned
> symbol" was the most familiar Elisp term. I don't mind changing it if
> you think that's not so much of a concern.
It isn't a big deal, but in general, if you introduce terminology, you
should use it. "Chekhov's gun" and all that, you know...
> Revised patch attached.
Thanks, LGTM.
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2022-04-12 6:15 ` master 2e9111813b: Add two classic Common Lisp macro-writing macros Sean Whitton
2022-04-12 7:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-12 15:57 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-12 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-12 6:42 ` Po Lu
2022-04-12 18:43 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-12 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-13 5:48 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-13 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-04-13 19:46 ` Johann Klähn
2022-04-13 23:16 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-13 3:58 ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-13 5:08 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-14 2:56 ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-14 5:14 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-14 12:06 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-15 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-15 6:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-17 4:09 ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-17 1:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-04-18 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-18 5:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19 3:49 ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-12 8:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-12 15:52 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-12 15:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-13 9:21 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-04-13 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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