From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:55:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87o8ivumn5.fsf@telefonica.net> <834kkbp9vr.fsf@gnu.org> <87czyxuxw6.fsf@db48x.net> <87y2hlt82w.fsf@db48x.net> <87lfdlvsw4.fsf@logand.com> <83h7o8ncly.fsf@gnu.org> <87pn2wudab.fsf@db48x.net> <87mty0c3m1.fsf@gnus.org> <83czywnb86.fsf@gnu.org> <87im8ob707.fsf@gnus.org> <87eejcb6nx.fsf@gnus.org> <875z4ob5c9.fsf@gnus.org> <87a6u09nkq.fsf@gnus.org> <875z4o9jdg.fsf@gnus.org> <87ft3rflw2.fsf@igel.home> <87czyu9a72.fsf@gnus.org> <87k0t2q2t5.fsf@logand.com> <87a6tyq0m3.fsf@logand.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14119"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Tomas Hlavaty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 28 00:56:15 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 1ktftW-0003Zj-Lv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:56:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48880 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktftV-00083a-NB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:56:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktfsi-00079e-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:55:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59216) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktfsg-0004tX-T7; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ktfsQ-00047H-0Q; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:55:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87a6tyq0m3.fsf@logand.com> (message from Tomas Hlavaty on Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:40:20 +0100) 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:261957 Archived-At: > If (> (length foo) 10) is bad or not depends entierly on its context. (> (length foo) 10) uselessly counts (max 0 (- (length foo) 10)) items (+/- off by one error?) There are more things in life than lists ... length on a char-table or a string is constant. What is trying to be optimized here is not (PREDICATE (length ...)) but rather the implicit list-length, i.e. (PREDICATE (list-length ...)). The bad code _is already_ in Emacs. Then that code should be fixed, it will be needed to be fixed anyway -- a new function won't fix it magically.