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Re: master 2e9111813b: Add two classic Common Lisp macro-writing macros


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: master 2e9111813b: Add two classic Common Lisp macro-writing macros
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 09:14:04 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 23:59:40 -0400
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>   > > The purpose of the `cl-' prefix is so that we don't need to describe
>   > > those Common Lisp functions in the manual.  That is for functions
>   > > whose reason for existence in Emacs Lisp is compatibility.
> 
>   > That might have been the initial purpose, but there are already things
>   > with that prefix which are not only for compatibility.  For example,
>   > cl-letf, which isn't actually anywhere in CL but only in Elisp!
> 
> Why was it given that name?  Is there a good reason for that to be its
> name?  Should we rename it to `letf'?
> 
> Is it documented in the Emacs Lisp Ref Manual now?

No.



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