Re: Standardizing more key bindings?

[Richard Stallman]

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I wrote

    > The term "REPL" is inapplicable for most of these languages, since
    > they do not have anything comparable ton read, eval, or print.

You responded,

  > It's useless to fight to reserve this term to Lisp: it has been solidly 
  > coined for similar programs in non-homoiconic languages as well for the 
  > last 10-20 years at least.

which seems to be a change of subject, because you're talking about
some sort of "fight".

I'm talking about the question of what terminology we should use in
describing and designing GNU Emacs.  We should use clear and correct
terminology.

Doing that does not require that we fight with other groups
that make other decisions.

  > The languages in question might not have the same kind of 'read', but 
  > they usually have 'eval', and their REPLs do 'print'.

'read' and 'eval' are things that those lanuages don't have.  Their
command loops do have the ability to read and execute an expression,
but that does not break down, in those languages, into a combination
of 'read' and 'eval' in the Lisp sense.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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