From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CL package serious deficiencies Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:36:21 -0700 Message-ID: <87ty2ybknu.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <33271707.post@talk.nabble.com> <87fwemcwlx.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <87zkcubbfc.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <87vcnibb9t.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <87r4y6bams.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <4F3198CE.9000900@dancol.org> <87aa4skmm1.fsf@gmx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328899018 23962 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2012 18:36:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: egnartsms@gmail.com, Eric Schulte , lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, nix@esperi.org.uk, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dancol@dancol.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 10 19:36:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RvvL3-0002KE-T1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:36:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44885 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvvL3-00046R-CM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44021) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvvKx-00042U-Hf for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:36:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvvKt-0004DK-Du for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:36:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvvKm-0004CX-5O; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:36:36 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1AIaQRM015154 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:36:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1AIaPBt013843; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:36:26 -0500 Original-Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q1AIaLS4010966; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:36:22 -0500 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:50 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 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:148453 Archived-At: >>>>> "RMS" == Richard Stallman writes: RMS> There are some Emacs Lisp functions that have keyword arguments. RMS> These functions do specialized things which are complex; if they are RMS> clunky, that is acceptable. Thanks; this distinction makes sense to me. Tom