From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
To: jun <netjune@163.com>
Cc: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Can we add two args to copy-sequence?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:18:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tvwrtcu9.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41cc6ca4.f2de.1605aa9400f.Coremail.netjune@163.com> (jun's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:52:09 +0800 (CST)")
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>>>>> "j" == jun <netjune@163.com> writes:
j> Yes, I just know subseq. And there are also seq-subseq, seq-take, seq-drop,
j> butlast, Two many and hard to remmber. Almost all of them are implemented
j> in lisp except copy-sequence which is in C. Some of them are implemented by
j> copying the whole sequence and then modify the copy. If we add the two args
j> to copy-sequence, then these functions can be based on it with only one or
j> two lines in lisp, and reduce some data copy. Does the two args make
j> copy-sequence too much complex internally?
Ah, subseq, there it is. I kept looking for sublist or some variant thereof.
It's not that it's too complex internally, it's that extracting a sublist is
not the purpose of copy-sequence. You are asking us to add extra arguments to
a function to double its purpose, in a way that's more than just "copying a
sequence", as the name implies.
I'm very much against shoe-horning other behaviors into functions that appear
"close enough" for this sort of convenience. Please use cl-subseq. If we need
to move subseq into C, that's a different request, and could be made on
grounds of efficiency or speed. But I won't make copy-sequence more complex
for this reason.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-15 3:32 Can we add two args to copy-sequence? jun
2017-12-15 7:54 ` John Wiegley
2017-12-15 8:24 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-12-15 14:52 ` jun
2017-12-16 6:18 ` John Wiegley [this message]
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