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: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:50 -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> <87aa4skmm1.fsf@gmx.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328888708 5871 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2012 15:45:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:45:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nix@esperi.org.uk, egnartsms@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, tromey@redhat.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dancol@dancol.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Eric Schulte Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 10 16:45:05 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 1Rvsen-0006ep-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:45:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38035 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvsem-00079a-GI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:45:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvseg-00078C-QD for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:45:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvseb-0003gS-4U for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52792) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvsea-0003gJ-V5 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvseY-0001RO-O3; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:50 -0500 In-reply-to: <87aa4skmm1.fsf@gmx.com> (message from Eric Schulte on Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:23:00 -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:148433 Archived-At: I assume you are referring the use of keyword arguments in the CL functions, as (to my knowledge) keyword arguments were consciously excluded from elisp and are not used elsewhere. Yes. I excluded them from list-manipulation functions because they are clunky. There are some Emacs Lisp functions that have keyword arguments. These functions do specialized things which are complex; if they are clunky, that is acceptable. -- 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/