From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [GNU ELPA] New package: tam Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:26:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37383"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lynn Winebarger Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 22:27:14 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 1qjQGY-0009RF-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:27:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qjQG4-0005b1-VB; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:26:44 -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 1qjQG3-0005af-Ah for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:26:43 -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 1qjQG2-0000VI-65; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:26:42 -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=PhdYVdKf5hrxn7XWZSr7LrgDMuecUJ5TN4hwip1b5cY=; b=SDJLIveLnm4D Ch9pAFYL3F6OoFd/m3UOP3Q7hcIHdBJV3+g9NHi5bobmJNKWK7HDXCG6IUapvEtygFAEM2YSgx7yW ZuxkE+TWXn7DBj8Jma/m8/lJFdiCAaJkSmUm7d6soVFs56whJIktxLC1is1UbZGwA34MzZttoiTKU TvYUVhIAaXmcrEDTc0aM8DCTUQSmTsjiRXhoGsellYU5stL2q5Y2GnzJ4ntR95fwG+vVZ+knSw643 AjgRNC6qJS3veNurXkp1p9QB82PEe5X4FLK1K596029tPJDjItX+jKo85zH8ItzDbgf0CYVY4gE4f HRef4AviIpRBsVhwg4CIww==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qjQG1-0003rk-Bg; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:26:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Lynn Winebarger on Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:48:26 -0400) 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:310930 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. ]]] > Thanks for taking a look. The reason is that I was thinking about > adding functionality for pools of preallocated objects that leverage > the tables for tracking which objects are actually being used. I don't have much of a picture of what you're using this for. For all I know, maybe it is a good method for that use. But it does seem un-lispy. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)