From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: anaphora in emacs-lisp? Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:29:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87lhqyg1yr.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407529774 18301 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2014 20:29:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 20:29:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 22:29:25 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 1XFqmy-0007N8-FY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 22:29:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFqmy-0000oN-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41427) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFqml-0000X5-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:29:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFqmd-0001x0-O2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from static.17.66.46.78.clients.your-server.de ([78.46.66.17]:32842 helo=po1.ferrier.me.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFqmd-0001wH-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:29:03 -0400 Original-Received: from nicferrier-dell-xps (140.35.155.90.in-addr.arpa [90.155.35.140]) by po1.ferrier.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 47C52AC0A17; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 22:41:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nicferrier-XPS13-9333 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nicferrier-dell-xps (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4488C61974; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 21:29:00 +0100 (BST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 78.46.66.17 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:173491 Archived-At: Is there any objection to us adding anaphora to EmacsLisp? I have just written an alias for ibuffer's functions for about the 50-millionth time. Simply aliasing the main functions implemented in ibuffer would be trivial. It could be namespaced, as per Stefan's preference, with "a". (defalias 'aif 'ibuffer-aif) etc... Can we not do that? Nic