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: [Emacs-diffs] master b689b90: Package archives now have priorities. Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:11:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20150116102411.11014.8945@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421503883 16409 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2015 14:11:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:11:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jorgen =?windows-1252?Q?Sch=E4fer?= , emacs-devel To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 17 15:11:22 2015 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 1YCU5y-0003m6-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 15:11:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59309 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCU5x-0005Ju-5h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:11:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCU5i-0005Jp-GC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCU5f-00077r-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:11:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:29405) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YCU5f-00077m-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:11:03 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AskIAOwQflS4rwoL/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYMp3BAICgSQXAQEBAQEBfIQDAQEDAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIhKCdZZAQEBAQYBAQEBHpBvB4RIBYsBjFUFl1SBeIQZIYJ3AQEB X-IPAS-Result: AskIAOwQflS4rwoL/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYMp3BAICgSQXAQEBAQEBfIQDAQEDAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIhKCdZZAQEBAQYBAQEBHpBvB4RIBYsBjFUFl1SBeIQZIYJ3AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="108059114" Original-Received: from 184-175-10-11.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.10.11]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 17 Jan 2015 09:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 66BB12214; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:11:02 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Sat, 17 Jan 2015 10:12:32 -0200") 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:181374 Archived-At: > I also have a very tiny peeve here. Could we name this function > `package--alist-append' or something like this? > It's just that `add-to-alist' really reminds me of `add-to-list', > which has a very different effect (the list variable is the first > argument, it's referenced by name instead of value, and it's changed > destructively). FWIW, I had the same reaction (and since I really dislike add-to-list's use "call by symbol", I actully went to double check what package--add-to-alist did, fearing it made the same design mistake). Stefan