Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Andreas Röhler]

On 19.09.2014 01:19, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>      That appears to no longer be true (emacs-24 branch):
>
>      rplaca is an alias for `setcar' in `subr.el'.
>
>      (rplaca CELL NEWCAR)
>
>      Set the car of CELL to be NEWCAR.  Returns NEWCAR.
>
> If I recall right, rplaca traditionally returned CELL, not NEWCAR.
> Thus, this change seems like an error.

Hi Richard,

IIUC this was just an example.

Once mentioned a multitude of string-strip functions, used to remove 
whitespace-characters from beginning or end of string - while missing a 
canoncial form.

Maybe past upcoming release discuss the standard library should pay.

Best,

Andreas