Re: [O] Why not push?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-02-15, at 12:35, Rasmus <address@hidden> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I don't want to be nitpicking, but I'm just curious.  I'm looking at the
>> function `org-split-string'.  It uses (two times) the following
>> construction:
>>
>> (setq list (cons (something) list))
>>
>> Is there any particular reason for not using `push' there?
>
> These days you even have split-string in subr which you can make behave
> like org-split-string.

Interesting.  I'll look into it.

> Oh, and there's all the cl re-implementations...  I like org-some better
> than cl-some just cause it sounds nice when you say it (try): 

Yes, it seems to me that reinventing the wheel is quite common in Emacs
libraries.

>      org (tiny pause) some.

At least one lame pun comes to mind...

> —Rasmus

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University