From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, spwhitton@spwhitton.name
Subject: Re: master 2e9111813b: Add two classic Common Lisp macro-writing macros
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 09:14:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fsme3mc3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1nfD7U-000753-Ue@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 14 Apr 2022 23:59:40 -0400)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 23:59:40 -0400
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > > The purpose of the `cl-' prefix is so that we don't need to describe
> > > those Common Lisp functions in the manual. That is for functions
> > > whose reason for existence in Emacs Lisp is compatibility.
>
> > That might have been the initial purpose, but there are already things
> > with that prefix which are not only for compatibility. For example,
> > cl-letf, which isn't actually anywhere in CL but only in Elisp!
>
> Why was it given that name? Is there a good reason for that to be its
> name? Should we rename it to `letf'?
>
> Is it documented in the Emacs Lisp Ref Manual now?
No.
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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
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 [this message]
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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