From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:46:03 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87lhpgq9pw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20140917202418.240bbd2c@forcix> <541A7D4A.5010509@online.de> <87ppes9gk8.fsf@igel.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411116417 14877 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2014 08:46:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 08:46:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 10:46:50 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XUtq3-00053P-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:46:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUtq2-0006MK-LP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60189) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUtpl-0006LM-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:46:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUtpf-0002A3-Kb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:46:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41961) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUtpf-00028j-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XUtpW-0004sd-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:46:14 +0200 Original-Received: from x2f43f31.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.63.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:46:14 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by x2f43f31.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:46:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f43f31.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T1P4mW9ovRgMQDTkFUXWGOPnY7I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174539 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > Ivan Andrus writes: > >> On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: >> >> setcar is not entirely equivalent to rplaca -- they return different >> values. That's why I gave it a different name. >> >> >> That appears to no longer be true (emacs-24 branch): > > For some value of "no longer". > > Changes in Emacs 1.6 > > * rplaca is now a synonym for setcar, and rplacd for setcdr. > eql is now a synonym for eq; it turns out that the Common Lisp > distinction between eq and eql is insignificant in Emacs. > numberp is a new synonym for integerp. Well, the other changes have not survived when Emacs gained floating point numbers. Version 19.0 or so? -- David Kastrup