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

[Noam Postavsky]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> I asked that three years ago, when the patch was already two years old,
> so I'm guessing that this is not going to happen, so I'm closing this
> bug report.

Oh, this reminds me I had started writing a patch for this.  I used the
name cons* instead of list* though, I always found it more logical:
cons* is cons repeated, just like let* is let repeated.  Let me dust it
off:

0001-Implement-cons-as-a-C-subroutine-Bug-16963.patch
Description: patch