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bug#37811: closed ("standard GNU Emacs Lisp")


From: GNU bug Tracking System
Subject: bug#37811: closed ("standard GNU Emacs Lisp")
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 09:58:01 +0000

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regarding "standard GNU Emacs Lisp"
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: "standard GNU Emacs Lisp" Date: 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".



--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#37811: "standard GNU Emacs Lisp" Date: 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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