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: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:54:35 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87mw6zn8l0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <877fy77zhp.fsf@web.de> <87k326d4ww.fsf@gmail.com> <877fy6rp2o.fsf@web.de> <548230FB.40307@dancol.org> <5482C872.5010304@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417942522 8649 80.91.229.3 (7 Dec 2014 08:55:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 08:55:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 09:55:15 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 1XxXcY-0002CA-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57391 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxXcY-00033B-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 03:55:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxXcF-00032u-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 03:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxXc9-0007EZ-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 03:54:55 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxXc9-0007EU-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 03:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XxXc7-0001x7-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:54:48 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f4fd17.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.253.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:54:47 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f4fd17.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:54:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f4fd17.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/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nMi98EFhXbzcJd2lzrOe4618Ooc= 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:179240 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> the environment. It's `car', goddammit it, not `seq-list-car'. > > Yup. `car' sucks as well, but it's too late to fix it. > The prefix also helps discoverability, BTW. What was it again? "contents of address register" or something as opposed to "contents of decrement register". Rather arbitrary terms for first element and the tail of a list. If anything, I'd have expected the tail to be in an address register. But that's heritage. Not even Scheme dared touching it. -- David Kastrup