From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: johnw@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 a9c48d5: Additional fixes for file notification
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 11:53:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1aanYO-00048c-FL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2lnfg3o.fsf@fastmail.fm> (message from Joost Kremers on Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:53:31 +0100)
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> Perhaps I shouldn't be butting in, being only a modest package
> maintainer, but I that doesn't make sense to me. To me, `cl' is so
> obviously an abbreviation for Common Lisp that I would automatically
> expect any function (macro, etc.) prefixed with `cl-' to be a
> Common-Lisp emulation function.
I agree. Indeed, the only reason we have `cl' and `cl-' is that some
users wanted to add emulation of lots of Common Lisp functions, and I
agreed to it provided they did not go into the main Emacs name space.
When we add Lisp construct for some other reason, rather than putting it
in `cl' or prefixing it with `cl-', we have better options:
* If it is useful enough, give it a short name.
* If it isn't useful enough for a short name, give it a long name.
Perhaps in some special case a non-CL function seems to fit CL
so closely that we could treat it as an honorary import from CL
by putting it in `cl' and `cl-'. That could be right in some
very special cases.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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2016-02-22 18:51 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 a9c48d5: Additional fixes for file notification Stefan Monnier
2016-02-22 20:41 ` Michael Albinus
2016-02-22 20:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-22 20:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-22 21:07 ` Michael Albinus
2016-02-22 21:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-22 22:48 ` Michael Albinus
2016-02-22 23:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-22 21:39 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-22 21:42 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-22 22:28 ` Oleh Krehel
2016-02-22 23:15 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-23 1:05 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-23 1:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-23 2:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-23 16:41 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-23 16:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-23 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-23 22:48 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-24 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-24 2:00 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-24 2:50 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-24 2:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-24 3:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 3:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 4:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-24 4:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 15:18 ` Nicolas Richard
2016-02-24 15:33 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-24 12:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-24 15:29 ` Nicolas Richard
2016-02-24 16:51 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-24 4:08 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-24 10:02 ` Stephen Berman
2016-02-29 6:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-29 7:06 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-29 15:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-29 19:53 ` Joost Kremers
2016-03-01 16:53 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-02-29 17:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-29 18:11 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-29 18:47 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-29 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-29 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-29 21:19 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-29 21:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-29 22:19 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-01 16:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-01 20:09 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-23 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
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2016-02-23 18:09 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-24 13:41 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-22 23:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-22 23:50 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-23 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
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