bug#16963: A patch to create a list-with-tail primitive.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Demetrios Obenour <demetriobenour@gmail.com> writes:

> Since a comment in backquote.el said that backquote-list* needed to be a
> primitive, here is an implementation of it as one, under the name
> list-with-tail.

[...]

> -(defun cl-list* (arg &rest rest)
> +(defalias 'cl-list* (symbol-function 'list*)
>    "Return a new list with specified ARGs as elements, consed to last

Reading this bug report, there seemed to be general agreement that Emacs
should have `list*', and that `cl-list*' should be an alias for it, but
these patches were not applied.

I can't find your name in the Emacs copyright assignment file -- would
you be willing to sign a copyright assignment to the FSF?

And then, could you re-spin the patches, along with changes to the
lispref manual as needed (and an etc/NEWS entry)?

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