From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About traditional Lisp primitives
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:39:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-F1D9DE.05391806032013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.21530.1362559820.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.21530.1362559820.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> wrote:
> In (info "(elisp) Coding Conventions"):
>
> This recommendation applies even to names for traditional Lisp
> primitives that are not primitives in Emacs Lisp--such as
> `copy-list'.
>
> I don't know what "traditional Lisp primitives" means here. What are
> the differences between traditional Lisp primitives and primitives in
> Emacs Lisp? Are they implemented in C?
What they mean is a function in a traditional Lisp dialect (e.g. Common
Lisp or Maclisp) that doesn't exist in Emacs Lisp. If you want to use
such a function in your own package, you need to write it yourself --
and the recommendation is that you personalize it with a prefix, so you
don't conflict with another package that has a similar need.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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2013-03-06 10:39 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2013-03-07 10:54 ` gvfs-open in eshell/shell-command Phillip Lord
2013-03-12 13:48 ` Michael Albinus
[not found] ` <mailman.21924.1363096112.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-14 17:42 ` politza
2013-03-18 12:19 ` Phillip Lord
2013-03-06 8:50 About traditional Lisp primitives Xue Fuqiao
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