From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About traditional Lisp primitives Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:39:18 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362592546 19023 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2013 17:55:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:55:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 06 18:56:10 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UDIZV-0002qM-EH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:56:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49476 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDIZ9-0006TL-SO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:55:47 -0500 X-Received: by 10.180.8.4 with SMTP id n4mr4781544wia.0.1362566359079; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:39:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!19no12327795wij.1!news-out.google.com!bp2ni75723wib.1!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!dont-email.me!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="14964"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19M1o1PrbS70QcnFwEw7+4C" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fh3nGaKkCpDQ23RB/0ubqbgVKiI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197102 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:55:26 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89390 Archived-At: In article , Xue Fuqiao 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 *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***