From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27696 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: CVS: Symbol's function definition is void: ignore-errors Date: 04 Dec 1999 21:36:01 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <3153296531820047@birk150.studby.uio.no> <82bkll$j5d$1@quimby.gnus.org> <9t9g0xi4lf6.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr> <9t9aenqa3tt.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr> <9t9wvqu8o2k.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164675 25861 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:44:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA24847 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 15:30:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB12681; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:30:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 04 Dec 1999 14:29:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14458 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:29:44 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [193.69.4.139]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA24834 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 15:29:19 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA09450 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:31:27 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 944339487 15007 193.69.4.148 (4 Dec 1999 20:31:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Dec 1999 20:31:27 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Noosphere's _Radiated_: "Noosleap" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > > Yup. That's why I want the byte-code, not the functions themselves. > > But the byte-code doesn't have the whole info. My point is that, for > instance: > > (disassemble > (lambda () (eql x 'bar))) > > ...disassembles to code that uses `eq' because it's safe. OTOH, this: > > (disassemble > (lambda () (eql x y))) > > ...disassembles to code that uses `equal', because EQUAL has its own > byte-code instruction, and it's faster than calling `eql'. Cool. I didn't know about `define-compiler-macro'. > > I think it's mainly a name-pollution thing for RMS. Having > > `delete-duplicates' in the namespace will make people believe that's > > a proper Emacs function and stuff. > > Isn't it, really? It ships with Emacs, it's GPL-ed, it's assigned to > the FSF, it works nicely, it sings and it cooks for you. If noone is > supposed to use it, why is it there in the first place? I think people are supposed to decide for themselves whether to load cl, or something. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen