From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to quote a list of functions? Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 02:39:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87mvxh8qq1.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> References: <87mvxug2us.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87vbch1gb0.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87wpwudby7.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <20150817062952.GD17453@tuxteam.de> <87wpwtbe71.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87r3n07tve.fsf@mbork.pl> <87io8cyv38.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87y4h7fjcz.fsf@mbork.pl> <20150819202135.GA7200@tuxteam.de> <87wpwo769m.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87si7c6w8k.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87zj1h5zfx.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440427309 7340 80.91.229.3 (24 Aug 2015 14:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:41:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 24 16:41:41 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZTswO-0003zR-52 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:41:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48754 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTswN-0008AC-CW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35166) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTfp0-0001SD-Vi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:41:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTfox-00011o-Pi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42747) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTfox-00011c-J1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTfow-00017B-KS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 02:41:06 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-190.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 02:41:06 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-190.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 02:41:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-190.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:im4yvecpKaWZNAUP3KCpV6CRLgo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106785 Archived-At: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: >> This is another example of how much better the old >> way was when there was no thought whatsoever what >> anything "is" but instead everything was *used* by >> their names alone. Well, it is the way of >> the street. > > If you're not happy with the lisp-2-ness of emacs > lisp, you can always use edwin instead. Well, happy and happy. If it is lisp-2-ness it is. I'm in the process of going thru all the code right now. Personally, I have never felt the need to separate function from symbol nor do I see anything to gain from having variables and functions have the same name. But I will definitely not switch from Emacs/Elisp to EdWin/Scheme because of that. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573