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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: moving more cl seq/mapping support into core
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:32:55 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrq8z4ew.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m14odcveak.fsf@cam.ac.uk

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>> Aside from that, the keyword-based interfaces of these functions does
>> not fit the style of Emacs Lisp very well.
>
> But all the major build blocks like define-derived-mode, defcustom,
> define-minor-mode, easy-menu-define etc use keyword arguments.

Emacs sometimes uses keywords for complex top-level
nobody-expects-them-to-be-fast functions/macros.  CL uses keywords for
just about every function in the language.  There's a distinct
difference in style, and that should be respected.

-Miles

-- 
Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-26 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-24 22:48 moving more cl seq/mapping support into core MON KEY
2010-09-25  5:13 ` Leo
2010-09-25  5:58   ` Miles Bader
2010-09-25 14:42     ` Drew Adams
2010-09-25 15:07       ` Leo
2010-09-25 15:23         ` Drew Adams
2010-09-25 15:30           ` Leo
2010-09-25 15:33             ` David Kastrup
2010-09-25 15:55               ` Drew Adams
2010-09-25 15:55             ` Drew Adams
2010-09-25 16:01               ` Leo
2010-10-01  0:33             ` Daniel Colascione
2010-09-25 21:26       ` Miles Bader
2010-09-26 10:37   ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-26 13:13     ` Leo
2010-09-26 19:32       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2010-09-27  6:27       ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-01  0:28         ` Daniel Colascione
2010-10-01  3:16           ` Miles Bader
2010-10-01 20:39             ` Daniel Colascione
2010-10-02  7:12               ` David Kastrup
2010-10-03 23:15                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-04 17:41                   ` Daniel Colascione
2010-10-05 23:32                     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-01 11:42           ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-01 20:36             ` Daniel Colascione
2010-10-01 11:42           ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-01 20:34             ` Daniel Colascione
2010-10-01 21:12               ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-27 19:07 ` MON KEY
2010-10-02  5:35   ` MON KEY
2010-10-04  2:03     ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-04  5:51       ` MON KEY
2010-10-06  5:21         ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-09  0:29           ` MON KEY
2010-10-10  5:09             ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-04 17:33       ` Daniel Colascione
2010-10-05  9:55         ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-05 10:20           ` Helmut Eller
2010-10-05 18:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-06 23:41             ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-07 15:04               ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-07 15:17               ` Karl Fogel
2010-10-09  2:13                 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-05 13:07           ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-06 23:41             ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-07  9:20               ` Daniel Colascione
2010-10-08  5:47                 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-05 18:26           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-06  0:29           ` MON KEY
2010-10-08  2:07             ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-08  2:18               ` Miles Bader
2010-10-08  3:15                 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-06  8:04           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-06  9:20             ` David Kastrup

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