From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David O'Toole Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: un-deprecating CL Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:48:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <864phxjj03.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <87hclx834d.fsf@red-bean.com> <86ps0jiwfm.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86k5qqgh9y.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <46EF7F3E.8070107@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190159367 5572 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2007 23:49:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:49:27 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 19 01:49:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IXmol-0006dj-Nd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:49:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXmok-00054m-Ag for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXmoh-00054b-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:49:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXmof-00053v-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXmof-00053d-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IXmoe-0001NW-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IXmoW-0007J5-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:49:08 +0200 Original-Received: from 24-183-185-28.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([24.183.185.28]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:49:08 +0200 Original-Received: from dto by 24-183-185-28.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:49:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24-183-185-28.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAgMAAAAqbBEUAAAADFBMVEWWKwTDUQbecQ/1kCFb ic5lAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYAAAAB3RJTUUH1wELDREeiIClpgAAAa5JREFUKM8tj7Fu nEAQhmcjkSJNDslrJW+DJW/qI2I2uaSwG4iMpfhpOOloUgWJRYImTUAy75EiZYo7iR5bZvIvNlSf vn/+maWEn79D5RwF4VnMnFZZDojZ4Lc222eOdJjAmPTgYC4SwxyFfNjnjlizPiOd76rKkTHhx0hp V5cwvprItrOvNsZsSNlu8SaOOSKVNVKVLWIhkfrSjH+cb/sMKJvxX4mZ+NKbTh5cS8zXRPRpkIe8 pRhlRG9GWfwMRxsKXt1fLT6mo4jeq8UK9mgD805JPa4FF5hRT524BtUrzFfiTaIA9OutNzF7UPcf pOmJo9iDLGssMiuIj+H9EeAOMAG0hx/yHAu2RMF3kf4EYID2sYF4qwGvh1FO/hxOYBBziPEO5vyv yIQY32xJ8ZP49+w4R+wrlk4TWc4Lom8iyxEzWf7zxQxUsANYQDuQzfJ6S+edCGKFdS/Qo/rQ1gnx rUzNQIfS1UzBHV6APZnLik3QrWZf9jVHtns84uq0/F1yrHH0MFBZ9Zxs7CDeFOWcsrIjTpsoT2fm EOcc29VwjDJ5RFuWzpeJGUVO/fAf1lkLWqs5deQAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:m33TLLZpfCd5ZwGnlMqfh0seHQw= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79251 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > If the keyword argument handling is broken out and generalized will it > still add much complexity? > > The complexity that bothers me is the complexity of the programming > interface. This is not about implementation. I don't understand what is complicated about the programming interface of keyword arguments. -- David O'Toole dto@gnu.org http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/