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"standard GNU Emacs Lisp" |
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Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:11:34 -0500 |
Section 5.7 of the Elisp manual ("Using Lists as Sets") mentions
"standard GNU Emacs Lisp". This makes it sound like there is a
language standard, which is not the case. I suggest changing the word
"standard". Possible alternatives: "basic", "plain", "out-of-the-box".
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Re: bug#37811: "standard GNU Emacs Lisp" |
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Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:56:45 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:48:59 +0100
>
> > Or maybe we should simply say this:
> >
> > Common Lisp note: Common Lisp has functions ‘union’ (which avoids
> > duplicate elements) and ‘intersection’ for set operations. In Emacs
> > Lisp, variants of these facilities are provided by the ‘cl-lib’
> > library. *Note (cl)Lists as Sets::.
>
> Yes, this is much better than the other proposed alternatives. Please
> push such a change. (The file to edit is emacs/doc/lispref/lists.texi
> row 1215.)
Done.
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