From: Nick Andryshak <nandryshak@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: nicolas@petton.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, tsdh@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string> missing?
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:10:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oirr3psixh1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sia8rdkm.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> Why would a language have '<' without '>'?
>
> Because it's enough?
Should 'enough' be considered an acceptable standard?
Quote, atom, eq, cons, car, cdr, and cond are 'enough', right? Should
Emacs be reduced to this handful of functions?
>> > With that argument, we'd also need string<= and string>=.
>>
>> Nothing wrong with that.
>
> That's just the tip of the iceberg. We have quite a few of other
> similar situations in Emacs Lisp.
I don't think adding in a few small functions to satisfy some
inconsistencies makes the rest of that iceberg very menacing. I
understand where you're coming from with this argument, but I don't
really buy it. Emacs has matching functions for < and <=, why not
string<?
- Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-03 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-03 9:05 string> missing? Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 15:03 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 15:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-03 15:46 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 16:10 ` Nick Andryshak [this message]
2015-06-03 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 16:50 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 18:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-06-03 19:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-03 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 19:34 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 20:11 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 20:37 ` Jay Belanger
2015-06-03 20:53 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 21:35 ` Jay Belanger
2015-06-03 21:36 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-03 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-04 5:30 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-04 7:44 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 8:08 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-04 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-03 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-04 2:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-04 6:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-04 7:02 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2015-06-04 7:53 ` Gnus & Mail-Followup-To (was: string> missing?) Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 9:04 ` Gnus & Mail-Followup-To Tassilo Horn
2015-06-04 12:50 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-05 17:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-06 8:48 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 4:20 ` string> missing? Thierry Volpiatto
2015-06-04 15:52 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 21:24 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-04 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 17:56 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-05 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 20:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-05 21:35 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-06-05 21:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-05 22:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-06 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-06 8:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-07 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-06 1:52 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-06 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-07 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
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