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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 2e9111813b: Add two classic Common Lisp macro-writing macros
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 23:59:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nfD7U-000753-Ue@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y208z1p2.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Wed, 13 Apr 2022 22:14:17 -0700)

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  > > The purpose of the `cl-' prefix is so that we don't need to describe
  > > those Common Lisp functions in the manual.  That is for functions
  > > whose reason for existence in Emacs Lisp is compatibility.

  > That might have been the initial purpose, but there are already things
  > with that prefix which are not only for compatibility.  For example,
  > cl-letf, which isn't actually anywhere in CL but only in Elisp!

Why was it given that name?  Is there a good reason for that to be its
name?  Should we rename it to `letf'?

Is it documented in the Emacs Lisp Ref Manual now?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-15  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <164974332528.14217.12591424007013368601@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20220412060205.8B446C01687@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-04-12  6:15   ` master 2e9111813b: Add two classic Common Lisp macro-writing macros Sean Whitton
2022-04-12  7:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-12 15:57       ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-12 16:22         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-12  6:42   ` Po Lu
2022-04-12 18:43     ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-12 19:25       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-13  5:48         ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-13 12:35           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-13 19:46           ` Johann Klähn
2022-04-13 23:16             ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-13  3:58     ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-13  5:08       ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-14  2:56         ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-14  5:14           ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-14 12:06             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-15  3:59             ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-04-15  6:14               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-17  4:09                 ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-17  1:57               ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-04-18  2:41                 ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-18  5:18                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19  3:49                     ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-12  8:46   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-12 15:52     ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-12 15:59       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-13  9:21   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-04-13 15:14     ` Stefan Monnier

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