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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Naming FCRs
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:43:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yc1xPNia24nCtE6l@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1n2n3R-0004vw-9I@fencepost.gnu.org>

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On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:28:41PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> 
>   > > I think we should extend the functionality of closures by providing a
>   > > way to access the bound variables in them.  Then we won't need to make
>   > > Emacs Lisp more complicated with a new data type, because ordinary
>   > > closures will do this job too.
> 
>   > That's exactly what fcr.el does.
> 
> I have not seen fcr.el -- would you please send me a copy?
> 
> However, if it does exactly what I described above, why do we need a
> name other than "closures"?  Why do we need a new type of object?

Possibly because it diverges somewhat from the canonical meaning of
"closure" -- it might confuse people.

Cheers
-- 
t

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-30  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-26 22:04 Naming FCRs Stefan Monnier
2021-12-26 22:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-27 18:55   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-28  0:31     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-27  0:46 ` Bob Rogers
2021-12-28 13:11   ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-29 16:33   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-04 20:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-11  3:25       ` Filipp Gunbin
2022-01-11  3:44         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-12  4:56           ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-12 15:10             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-27  1:35 ` Po Lu
2021-12-27  2:33   ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-27  4:12     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-27  7:33       ` tomas
2021-12-29  1:09         ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-28  4:19   ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-28  5:43     ` Po Lu
2021-12-28 11:24       ` Andreas Schwab
2021-12-28 17:28         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-30 10:35           ` Andreas Schwab
2021-12-27  4:15 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-27  5:46   ` LdBeth
2021-12-27 19:48     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-27  4:38 ` Jim Porter
     [not found]   ` <jwvczlheu3o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2021-12-28 18:35     ` Jim Porter
2021-12-29  1:02       ` Phil Sainty
2021-12-29 16:19       ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-29 16:43         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-29 19:01         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-30  2:54           ` LdBeth
2021-12-30  4:28           ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-30  8:43             ` tomas [this message]
2021-12-30 10:15               ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-30 14:00                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-30 18:46                   ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-31  4:26                   ` Richard Stallman

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