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: Shrinking the C core Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 03:21:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20230809094655.793FC18A4654@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fs4pkkqi.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87jztzkgct.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87y1if8j8t.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <87y1ifi9fv.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87zg2uqdmv.fsf@localhost> <87edk3gbh3.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87jztvnuyb.fsf@localhost> <875y5bdutt.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87y1i6e1uh.fsf@localhost> <874jkub40o.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87jztqdw2l.fsf@localhost> <87msym9i4r.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87a5ula1zt.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87jzto6hct.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28554"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 21 09:22:36 2023 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 1qXzFD-0007Bk-Bp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:22:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qXzET-0008Ns-3Y; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 03:21:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qXzEE-0008GL-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 03:21:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qXzEC-0001zA-UB; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 03:21:32 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=+q4OzL6/EE1tYyKhK6oWGC1jCp/4/OV+uy4cG/5J8pc=; b=S4OZpDDnmnSp KpmCyYsxBzRPRKZZ5z+fO4aB+tDSRoOx2TqqbaF3HYvr7737Bt2ZQSnS8piX0oO0YIMh4ImZzpG8D +wDEoPTeON+jAw/ncOMYN9NxbNC8pdIUQ94fVL5a5wL2+IKMcPmwGRkCZG7mCAi869n+y+kHW7QmQ 6JX/XPgBZHGSmbN8uwukIcqI+DKeWiY0F8dBCyEftTOuKRyqEtPG0aF3OL4jByaP2mBS1Obga6lZt v1sYxewgtpPMijynGir31iQwrlXO76npoSuOqzGSIx/oFN+oSyf8RfX4tLliXNfPefWiue+DTxBY5 vMFL5Tm++Lk3huqfa6Qbdg==; Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qXzEC-0000pH-MN; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 03:21:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87jzto6hct.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Mon, 21 Aug 2023 06:26:42 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:309031 Archived-At: > ... In Lisp you > never know the types of things. This is not true. It is absolutley true, you cannot know what the value of a variable is without checking the type of it at run time. Variables have no type information.