From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18165 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hrvoje Niksic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.39 is released Date: 25 Oct 1998 23:51:24 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156737 4746 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01924 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:52:21 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB26357; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:52:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:51:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA12373 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:51:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from jagor.srce.hr (hniksic@jagor.srce.hr [161.53.2.130]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01857 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:51:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from hniksic@localhost) by jagor.srce.hr (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA25686; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 23:51:24 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Hrvoje X-Face: &{dT~)Pu6V<0y?>3p$;@vh\`C7xB~A0T-J%Og)J,@-1%q6Q+, gs<-9M#&`I8cJp2b1{vPE|~+JE+gx;a7%BG{}nY^ehK1"q#rG O,Rn1A_Cy%t]V=Brv7h writes: > > I don't see what's there to coordinate. The object is named > > `compiled-function', so the predicate is `compiled-function-p'. Like > > bufferp or framep or whatever. > > Perhaps the object should be `byte-code-function' instead? > > > And this isn't anything new -- compiled functions have been there > > since at least 19.12. Besides, I think Common Lisp also has > > compiled-function-p. > > Yes, but in CL this is true for functions that really are compiled, > and not just byte-compiled. I disagree with your distinction of "really compiled" vs. "byte-compiled" functions. It makes as much sense for compiled functions to be called just that. The type of the compilation is an implementation detail. -- Hrvoje Niksic | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?