From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Aliasing EQ to EQL Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:14:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5e08587a56ad528599ed5fb259be6335.squirrel@dancol.org> <83muw5vdtr.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhzvyqfy.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgbezs6q.fsf@gnu.org> <6b522145569975d52266e29e8122e86b.squirrel@dancol.org> <50a1e0f98f6cfc5e55fdc2b7df5000b5.squirrel@dancol.org> <49478aa579597ea6557a3976779a234a.squirrel@dancol.org> <1c706afb-47c7-a8a7-3d3c-d4c8ea95cf70@cs.ucla.edu> <1e7cc051e1478a9e8ac77647617a612f.squirrel@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529287970 20470 195.159.176.226 (18 Jun 2018 02:12:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:12:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 18 04:12:46 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUjer-0005AP-BA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 04:12:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUjgy-00018W-He for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:14:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUjgp-00017O-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUjgj-0006az-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49856 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUjgi-0006a3-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:14:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUjeX-0004nW-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 04:12:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:m6TxPxVKn5dCDMBpxWAhg1bfUBI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226444 Archived-At: > For what? This aliasing has _zero_ real world benefit. The benefit (cleaner, simpler language) is marginal, indeed. > I maintain that this is a change we should absolutely not make. I have no intention to push this change. But I think eventually we will make a change along those lines. For that reason, when I see an argument between `eq` vs `equal`, I tend to translate it into `eql` vs `equal`. Stefan