From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding streams for standard out and standard err Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 09:35:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87oa5sexis.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87shv23kac.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469432164 28197 80.91.229.3 (25 Jul 2016 07:36:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 07:36:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 25 09:35:57 2016 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 1bRaQe-0004VJ-Ro for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 09:35:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59087 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRaQd-0007sO-J4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 03:35:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRaQR-0007sH-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 03:35:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRaQN-0001db-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 03:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRaQM-0001dH-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 03:35:38 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay1.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D620AC01; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 07:35:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: RHAPSODY in Glue! In-Reply-To: <87shv23kac.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:42:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206108 Archived-At: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > Yes, this is true, although they only print single characters, which is > pretty useless for most people. In actual use, they look like this: > > (print "hello" 'stdout) > > > Extending the name to reflect the full function: > > (print "hello" 'printchar-to-stdout) > > Seemed a bit duplicative to me. But it is not an object, but a function, and its name should describe its function. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."