From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems with Emacs 28
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:11:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sga3qnpb.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878sbvtog1.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>> FWIW, I think it's a mistake for Emacs to adopt that convention
>> now, or at least it's a mistake to adopt it only partially.
>
> I think it's ok if we end with a handful of functions that are
> explicitly labeled that way to indicate they are the
> in-place-modifying counterpart of some other existing pure function
> where the return value matters. As long as "!" is rarely seen, it's
> not suggesting that Emacs uses exactly the same convention
> as scheme.
Right, good point.
But I still think it looks weird.
Maybe instead of ! one could use -d, like we do with -p rather than ?.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-23 16:50 problems with Emacs 28 Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 17:33 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-23 18:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 1:55 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 12:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24 9:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-24 17:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-24 19:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-24 22:11 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-10-24 22:08 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-25 12:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-25 14:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-27 0:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-27 10:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-28 16:21 ` Jens C. Jensen
2020-10-28 17:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-28 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-31 18:26 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 13:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 18:22 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24 0:13 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 19:09 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 0:14 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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