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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2017 15:15:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1cxIIu-0004E9-0G@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7342364e-98f9-87d5-72d2-2f2d46d239f3@gmail.com> (message from Clément Pit-Claudel on Sat, 8 Apr 2017 08:24:11 -0400)

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In principle, there is no reason for vector functions to work on a
defstruct.  We can declare that usage obsolete, while keeping it
functioning.  In 3 years we can make it generate an error which
is easy to turn off, to nudge people to change the code.

On the other hand, it is wasteful to create myriad 'copy-FOO'
functions that all do the same thing.  We may as well have 
one function 'copy-struct' function that copies all kinds of sequences.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-09 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-05 15:31 Recent change in master breaks async package update using paradox Kaushal Modi
2017-04-05 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-05 21:59 ` Tom Tromey
2017-04-05 22:48   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-06  5:00     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-06 10:46       ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-06 11:00         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-06 11:28           ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-06 12:12             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-06 12:22               ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-06 12:36                 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-06 11:19 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07  5:42 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07  7:25   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-07  7:40     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07  9:51       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-07 13:28         ` Debugging problems using async.el Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 14:11           ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-07 14:39             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-07 18:10             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 11:59       ` Recent change in master breaks async package update using paradox Stefan Monnier
2017-04-07 13:07         ` What is a "sequence"? Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 13:26           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-07 16:56       ` If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records? Paul Eggert
2017-04-07 17:27         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 17:41           ` Drew Adams
2017-04-07 18:23             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 18:30               ` Drew Adams
2017-04-07 19:07                 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-07 19:13                   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-07 20:49                     ` Drew Adams
2017-04-07 21:00                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-07 21:02                       ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-08  1:58                         ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-08  5:03                           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-08  5:25                             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-08  5:34                           ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-08  7:42                             ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-08  7:50                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-08 13:33                               ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-08 11:34                         ` Philipp Stephani
2017-04-08 12:24                           ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-08 15:24                             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-08 17:17                               ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-08 17:46                                 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-09 19:15                             ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-04-11 12:27                               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-07 19:25                   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-07 19:41                     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-07 20:12                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-07 19:43                     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-07 17:59         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-07 18:28 ` Recent change in master breaks async package update using paradox Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-08  6:50   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-08 12:25     ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-08 13:35     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-08 18:21       ` Lars Brinkhoff

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