From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: append, push, and add-to-list. Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:46:47 +0200 Message-ID: <877di4g13c.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87o8bgg6br.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19377"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:dkQo8LE81/Ie8KJ909zd2mnwhgY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 05 18:47:29 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m0Rkm-0004tn-SW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:47:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52420 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0Rkl-0001zk-TI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50182) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0RkI-0001zO-Vu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:46:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50092) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0RkH-0007Iu-Hj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:46:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m0RkF-0004Bu-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:46:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131484 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > You should quote () when you feel like it, and you should > not quote it when you don't feel like it. > > Note that this only applies when you originally write the > code. If your feeling about it changes, that is not a blank > check to allow you to gratuitously change the code to adjust > it to your whims. Oh, no! But I don't remember if I knew () was possible when I wrote that. Later I saw it in Common Lisp and then I thought, cool, here you don't need it, now I learn you don't need it Elisp either... Wasn't there a civil war in Imperial Russia and the reason was in what order you'd touch your chest when doing the cross sign? They were also taking their programming seriously! -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal