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bug#49278: [External] : bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp
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Drew Adams |
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bug#49278: [External] : bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp |
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Mon, 27 Sep 2021 23:24:07 +0000 |
> >> >> "Because it's only appropriate for Common Lisp." Good enough?
> >> > No. We don't know that. We can't know that.
> >>
> >> Whether it works for other modes is not important. What we should
> >> document is what it's intended to support.
> >>
> >> People have used `c-mode` for many other languages than C over the
> >> years, yet we haven't changed its documentation to say it for C-like
> >> languages.
> >>
> >> I don't understand why `lisp-mode` should be treated differently.
> >
> > I don't see how what you're saying is different
> > from what I said, but I sense that you intend
> > it to mean something different.
>
> AFAIK you're arguing that we should not say "lisp-mode is designed for
> Common-Lisp"
No. I was saying that I don't see why we should
say that "lisp-mode is only for Common Lisp".
> on the basis that some users may be able to use for some
> other languages, whereas I argue it doesn't matter what other languages
> it may be used for unless we know and care about them to some extent.
It matters, I think, if the mode is called "Lisp mode".
> > It's a Lisp mode. (George: "Is there a
> > rosy hue?" Jerry: "There's...a...hue")
>
> No, that's the thing, it's a Common Lisp mode, not just "any Lisp" mode.
Then call it such, if you're sure it's useful
only for Common Lisp.
> Why should the name of the major mode be relevant to this discussion?
Why indeed. `irrelevant-mode'? `mystery-mode'?
I'd like to call it `fortran-mode', but I guess
that's out.
- bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp, (continued)
- bug#49278: [External] : bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp, Drew Adams, 2021/09/24
- bug#49278: [External] : bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/27
- bug#49278: [External] : bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp, Drew Adams, 2021/09/27
- bug#49278: [External] : bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/27
- bug#49278: [External] : bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp,
Drew Adams <=
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- bug#49278: [External] : bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/27
- bug#49278: [External] : bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp, Drew Adams, 2021/09/27
- bug#49278: [External] : bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/27
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