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From: Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Including some functions from dash.el in Emacs?
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:24:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9yl7vvs.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwq7i7v23.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>


Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I think that using cl-lib only to filter a list shows that something is
>> missing from the language.  To me it is also weird to use prefixed
>> functions for basic features like "cl-remove-if" and "cl-reduce".
>
> The real problem indeed is one of naming and coherence.
> It would be nice to group all list functions under the "list-" prefix,
> for example.

Then another question arises, where to start and stop? I would hate
having "list-car" for instance, and "mapcar" can take any sequence.

Nico
-- 
Nicolas Petton
http://nicolas-petton.fr




  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-30  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-29  7:25 Including some functions from dash.el in Emacs? Nicolas Petton
2014-10-29 12:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 13:04   ` Rasmus
2014-10-29 13:16   ` Nicolas Petton
2014-10-29 14:06     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:52       ` Nicolas Petton
2014-10-29 16:35         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30  9:24           ` Nicolas Petton [this message]
2014-10-30 13:41             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:09   ` raman
2014-10-29 16:36     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 14:38       ` raman
2014-10-30 15:48         ` Compiling non-Elisp files in ELPA packages (was: Including some functions from dash.el in Emacs?) Stefan Monnier

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