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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: 40570-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40570: [PATCH] Alias cl-subseq to seq-subseq, define gv-setter in the latter
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:18:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvo8rwplay.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfn0bp5z.fsf@gmail.com> ("Štěpán Němec"'s message of "Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:16:08 +0200")

> Indeed. The definition of `cl-replace' looks like not for the faint of
> heart, also a lot of that impression comes from all the cl- prefixed
> args and variables. Is that just an artifact of some automatic
> replacement process, or is there a reason those have to have the cl-
> prefix?

IIRC it's just a remnant of the dynamic scoping days where higher-order
functions needed to obfuscate their local var names to avoid accident
name capture.

`cl` used it fairly systematically (not just when and where needed).

IIRC I did remove this prefix in a number of places (and kept it at
a few places where those vars are actually accessed via dynamic
scoping), but I'm sure there are lots more to clean up.


        Stefan






      reply	other threads:[~2020-04-12 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-12  9:46 bug#40570: [PATCH] Alias cl-subseq to seq-subseq, define gv-setter in the latter Štěpán Němec
2020-04-12 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-12 17:16   ` Štěpán Němec
2020-04-12 19:18     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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