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Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records? |
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Sun, 09 Apr 2017 15:15:16 -0400 |
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In principle, there is no reason for vector functions to work on a
defstruct. We can declare that usage obsolete, while keeping it
functioning. In 3 years we can make it generate an error which
is easy to turn off, to nudge people to change the code.
On the other hand, it is wasteful to create myriad 'copy-FOO'
functions that all do the same thing. We may as well have
one function 'copy-struct' function that copies all kinds of sequences.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
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- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, (continued)
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Lars Brinkhoff, 2017/04/08
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Noam Postavsky, 2017/04/08
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Paul Eggert, 2017/04/08
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/04/08
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Noam Postavsky, 2017/04/08
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Philipp Stephani, 2017/04/08
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/04/08
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Lars Brinkhoff, 2017/04/08
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/04/08
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Lars Brinkhoff, 2017/04/08
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?,
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- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Stefan Monnier, 2017/04/11
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/04/07
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Noam Postavsky, 2017/04/07
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/04/07
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Stefan Monnier, 2017/04/07
- Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/04/07
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