From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Package Management Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:58:26 -0600 Message-ID: References: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> <87d45vzt4j.fsf@hagelb.org> Reply-To: Tom Tromey NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253041130 8766 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2009 18:58:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, phil@hagelb.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 20:58:42 2009 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 1MndEg-0001jV-5z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:58:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MndEf-0008Ef-J6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MndEa-0008EN-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MndEW-0008E0-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60079 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MndEW-0008Dw-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:58:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13174) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MndET-0006iE-Dk; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:58:29 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8FIwSoe030526; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8FIwR2l027835; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:58:27 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8FIwQ0S023388; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 185E5378198; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:58:26 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:30:03 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.16 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:115370 Archived-At: >>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader writes: Miles> * remove-if / delete-if / remove-if-not / delete-if-not Miles> (_without_ the CL keyword arguments) This is a side question, but I have been wondering for a while why Emacs doesn't have CL keyword arguments. Is there a reason? I looked in the Elisp manual, but didn't see anything. It seems to me that plenty of elisp actually uses them in practice, even functions in the Emacs C core. Direct support for them would probably simplify some code. Tom