From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, phil@hagelb.org, joakim@verona.se,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Package Management
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:30:03 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buok500y5is.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1MnSHS-0002lQ-No@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:16:50 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> That's more or less what we've been doing. Originally I strove very
> hard to keep Emacs itself small. Many basic and obviously useful
> functions were not standardly available, but they were in CL. Since
> then we have made a number of them standard, and we could certainly
> do this for more of them in the future when it seems best.
>
> But some of the CL facilities are overly complex. And some,
> specifically setf and friends, are not implemented quite right in the
> Emacs context, which makes them ugly to include.
Some suggestions for core:
* remove-if / delete-if / remove-if-not / delete-if-not
(_without_ the CL keyword arguments)
[These are very handy for filtering lists of values. The keyword
arguments are not very important, and keywordless core versions
would be compatible with keyword-supporting cl.el versions in the
same way that core `dolist' is compatible with cl.el `dolist']
* mapcan
[Useful for mapping when there isn't a 1-1 relationship between
argument list elements and result list elements]
* multiple-argument mapping (mapcar, mapc, etc) functions
[Useful and obvious generalization of existing mapping functions;
Gnus already contains its own implementation of a multiple-argument
mapcar]
[I think all of these are simple and practical.]
-Miles
--
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 21:27 Emacs Package Management Stephen Eilert
2008-08-01 22:58 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-01 23:14 ` Phil Hagelberg
2008-08-01 23:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-02 0:13 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-03 1:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-03 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-04 15:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-04 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-05 8:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-05 13:09 ` Stephen Eilert
2008-08-05 14:39 ` Paul R
2008-08-06 3:35 ` Richard M. Stallman
2009-09-16 22:36 ` Stephen Eilert
2009-09-17 1:44 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 14:26 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 14:58 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-28 21:13 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-28 21:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-28 21:54 ` Chong Yidong
2009-09-28 22:30 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-29 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-29 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 19:41 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-30 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 2:07 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-30 4:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 20:18 ` Tom Tromey
2009-10-01 5:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-02 1:58 ` Stephen Eilert
2008-08-02 3:36 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-02 17:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-08-12 4:10 ` Thomas Lord
2009-09-12 22:38 ` Phil Hagelberg
2009-09-12 23:30 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-13 16:40 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-14 9:07 ` joakim
2009-09-14 9:26 ` David Kastrup
2009-09-15 7:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 8:30 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-09-15 18:15 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 18:58 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-15 22:08 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-16 15:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-16 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 1:05 ` Geoff Gole
2009-09-17 19:50 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-15 18:55 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 6:37 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-17 8:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 8:37 ` joakim
2009-09-17 8:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-17 9:31 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 10:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-17 11:50 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-09-19 2:40 ` Bob Rogers
2009-09-19 12:10 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-09-17 14:24 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 19:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-17 15:04 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-09-17 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 14:21 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-13 17:00 ` Eric Schulte
2008-08-02 14:46 ` Paul R
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