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Re: Predicate for true lists
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Predicate for true lists |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 20:33:51 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 10:00:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> 1. Why is "proper" better than "true"? I don't argue
> against "proper", but what is really gained by this
> change in Emacs terminology?
Please go back and re-read the discussion that led to this patch, its
URL is in the commit log message of the patch. Let's not reopen old
discussions unless we have a good reason.
> Dunno how helpful this is (perhaps not very), but it
> purportedly shows how often "proper" and "true" appear
> in print as modifiers of "list" recently:
We will still have "true" in the manual and in the index.
- Re: Predicate for true lists, (continued)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master babe0d4: Rearrange definition of zerop in subr.el, Karl Fogel, 2018/07/11
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master babe0d4: Rearrange definition of zerop in subr.el, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2018/07/11
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master babe0d4: Rearrange definition of zerop in subr.el, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/11
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master babe0d4: Rearrange definition of zerop in subr.el, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2018/07/12
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master babe0d4: Rearrange definition of zerop in subr.el, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2018/07/12
RE: Predicate for true lists, Drew Adams, 2018/07/06
Re: Predicate for true lists, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/06