From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: un-deprecating CL Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:37:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <864phxjj03.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <87hclx834d.fsf@red-bean.com> <86ps0jiwfm.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <18156.13696.753467.452116@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190313528 9308 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2007 18:38:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 20 20:38:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IYQvF-00053E-I4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:38:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYQvD-0008ET-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYQv9-0008CX-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:38:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYQv8-0008Bh-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:38:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYQv8-0008Be-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:38:38 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IYQv4-0005Xl-Ez; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:38:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-128.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.128]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8KIcWaA019566; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:38:32 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4C8FD70028; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:37:31 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 20 Sep 2007 12\:34\:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered HAS_X_HELO=0 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79394 Archived-At: > As for mapcar, it is pretty slow already, and the main cost is in > calling the user's function. That won't get any slower. Then again: how many uses of mapcar* have you encountered? If you object to `union' because it's not used often, I'd expect you to reject the vararg version of mapcar. Stefan