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: [External] : Re: Re: cond* Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:15:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <25992.56214.508459.273816@orion.rgrjr.com> <834jg17aaf.fsf@gnu.org> 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="5224"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 31 04:15:25 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 1rJmIP-0001Au-R0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2023 04:15:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJmI9-0006F4-Im; Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:15:11 -0500 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 1rJmI8-0006Bt-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:15:08 -0500 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 1rJmI7-0006qZ-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:15:07 -0500 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=6tRThZnAHyFAtoecxy/t2v7axOVEff6LwdMUkb2cTBw=; b=PK89pSY3NOAd saX5DptCsqDKoHEPn0SqTmlkTWH69y8YrLRUlTxAK1lOmpCZOZb00hNgvcvsPdAicwv+AtCcAfkEd GIcXr9FhI94X2BEmaMyI4R2VQZLiDTu3Lx4ZXui9O9lYZ/HCL6+nxlS84FAyTvtYIUUihOU4loB0P fHCZNuNY/Zm9YKPc6G5uRq2KGTCHMyQ4LGdrVeFDEuSAoAizkmeETUWYz8Ay5PIHBgfva3qA6hKFc eJTXpq9S4LoSEDiEfcQOgCTlqc056VXHbDc+DvCs4DaF/Z026Uw33AUpZGINmg+DaGOVDSulG8/9a QUwEHTgi5MUMqehRgzG41Q==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJmI3-0000NI-H0; Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:15:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <834jg17aaf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:11:36 +0200) 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:314386 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. ]]] > > I'd be willing to use a different name if it is better. Do you have > > any suggestions for another name? > Two candidates I can think of are 'case' and 'case*'. If its name were `case', or based on `case', I think the same people who expect `cond*' to imply a close similarity to `cond', would expect `case*' to imply an equally close similarity to `cl-case'. They would be disappointed in te same way. `cl-case' has no unconditional clauses. I think this construct is closer to `cond' than to `cl-case', so the name `cond*' is better. Also, `cond' is more generic, which makes it more suitable as a base from which a construct like this can branch off. -- 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)