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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cl-pushnew and other functions
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:16:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsjddbfth.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wr2p9314.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Fri,  29 Jun 2012 17:17:11 -0500")

>>> I think the basic function in CL should just be considered part of the
>>> Emacs Lisp language,
>> We simply disagree.
> Why do we disagree?

Because I don't want to simply adopt all those Common-Lisp-isms into
Elisp.  A big reason for that is that Elisp is not compiled
aggressively, so some design choices in Common-Lisp would be too costly
in Elisp.

Other reasons is that I do not agree with some of Common-Lisp's design
choices (question of taste).  For a recent example, define-setf-expander
is ugly and inefficient, so the new "core setf" does not fully
support it.  Other example: why have `case' when you can have `pcase'?


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-30  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-29  4:38 cl-pushnew and other functions John Wiegley
2012-06-29 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-29 20:36   ` PJ Weisberg
2012-06-29 22:17   ` John Wiegley
2012-06-30  4:16     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-06-30  5:44       ` Helmut Eller
2012-07-02  3:50       ` John Wiegley
2012-07-02  7:25         ` Andreas Schwab
2012-07-04  5:04       ` John Wiegley
2012-07-04 12:31         ` Stefan Monnier

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