From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Keeping it kind Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 22:27:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83y2qezlpd.fsf@gnu.org> <83tv12zjx1.fsf@gnu.org> <20200429172739.GB4002@ACM> <20200430115108.GA4287@ACM> <20200430123855.GA1444@tuxteam.de> <20200430185819.GC16852@tuxteam.de> <2fbd1691-d0cf-26a8-3a23-e218f3d17704@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="125092"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 04:28:48 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhtX-000WRY-Vb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 04:28:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48636 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhtW-0001Io-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:28:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37946) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhsn-00081m-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhsm-0006rL-P6; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:28:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhsl-0006qB-IH; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:27:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2fbd1691-d0cf-26a8-3a23-e218f3d17704@gmail.com> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:04:58 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248373 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Let's not generalize too hastily. FWIW, I'm not bothered in the > least by alist-get (even better: it calls cdr for me!), and I > surmise I'm not alone "around here" to not find assq more readable > than alist-get. 'assq' is a traditional core Lisp function from the 1960s. I implemented it in GNU Emacs before it was even working to edit with. To change its name would have beeen unthinkable. Many years later, 'alist-get' was added. We gave it a name according to a systematic pattern. Each of those names was handled the right way. It is right to treat them differently. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)