From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: sequence manipulation functions Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:29:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <87oasmmwzt.fsf@gmail.com> <874mudilzb.fsf@gmail.com> <87zjc5v74u.fsf@tromey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415212204 18547 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2014 18:30:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Emacs developers To: Tom Tromey , Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 05 19:29:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Xm5L7-0005f2-84 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:29:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm5L6-0002Ok-SA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:29:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm5Kt-00029g-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:29:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm5Kk-0003Mx-Gm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:29:39 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:42144) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm5Kk-0003Mm-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sA5ITRof024109 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:29:28 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sA5ITP5Q023443 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:29:26 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0015.oracle.com (abhmp0015.oracle.com [141.146.116.21]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sA5ITPmt013683; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:29:25 GMT In-Reply-To: <87zjc5v74u.fsf@tromey.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176428 Archived-At: > there's already a lot of duplication in elisp, so I guess more won't hurt= . No, that's not a good reason to add more. And it's not true: duplication does not come without a cost - in particular for users, who try to make sense of it all.