From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: dolist considered harmful
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:29:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV--zPX=NLBj+7XA+aaBvSOH=6iP1=3CF=V1ENkRzvZ_JZw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zhuvow6d.fsf@gmail.com>
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 19:24, Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier writes:
>
> > Since it can only be used when we're 100% sure that LIST is a LIST,
> > (and who can be sure of such a thing in a dynamic language like Emacs
> > Lisp), I think we'd be better off deprecating it and changing all uses
> > of dolist with a clear while+cdr loop that everyone can understand.
>
> I haven't been following the other discussion, but I think deprecating dolist
> is a little extreme.
I think Stefan just forgot to add sarcasm tags to his message.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-30 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-30 18:39 dolist considered harmful Stefan Monnier
2018-10-30 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 23:24 ` Jay Kamat
2018-10-30 23:29 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-10-30 23:47 ` Drew Adams
2018-10-31 22:02 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-31 22:44 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-31 23:01 ` Garreau, Alexandre
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