From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CL package serious deficiencies Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:30:00 -0500 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328769021 26832 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2012 06:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:30:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: egnartsms@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, nix@esperi.org.uk, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dancol@dancol.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 09 07:30:19 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 1RvNWM-0001aY-PS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:30:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37740 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvNWL-0007MQ-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvNWD-0007L0-4l for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:30:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvNW4-00031a-Tk for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:30:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvNW4-00031W-Pp for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvNW4-0006Ek-3M; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:30:00 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Tom Tromey on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:00:40 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:148390 Archived-At: RMS> * We would have to document the CL functions in the manual, which is a RMS> big increase in the size. It is not that that is totally intolerable, RMS> it's that the benefit is not worth the burden. Why does this consideration not apply to EIEIO? Why would it apply to EIEIO? I don't think I ever saw a program that used EIEIO. If it is not likely to be used by most programs then it would not be crucial to describe it in the Lisp manual.. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/