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: Merging nth, aref, and elt. Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:56:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87oast997c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414789071 19805 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2014 20:57:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:57:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 21:57:45 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 1XkJG7-0007ii-A3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:57:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJ7G-0006Hd-OS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:48:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkIJ5-0005ZC-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:56:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkIIy-00078r-0U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:56:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:55458) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkIIp-00076d-VA; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:56:07 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Au4MAOatTlRFpY87/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWIxALDiYSFBgNJIhLCctyAQEBAQYBAQEBHpEIB4RLBbIggW+CAB6BdiGCegEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: Au4MAOatTlRFpY87/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWIxALDiYSFBgNJIhLCctyAQEBAQYBAQEBHpEIB4RLBbIggW+CAB6BdiGCegEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,797,1406606400"; d="scan'208";a="95695708" Original-Received: from 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.143.59]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 31 Oct 2014 15:56:07 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 391B162BA; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:56:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:13:27 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:176169 Archived-At: >> So it looks like there's nothing to be done. here :-) > I think there is: > - The efficiency of (setf (elt s i) v) needs to be improved. > - I'd argue that `elt' should also work on hash tables. A few more steps, and `elt' becomes foo-get. Stefan