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Re: string> missing?
From: |
Ivan Shmakov |
Subject: |
Re: string> missing? |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:35:31 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Adding string> might be 200 bytes. Saving 200 bytes is
>>> insignificant.
>> It was also insignificant back when you decided not to include it.
> Adding string> to Emacs proper is maybe additional 200 bytes but may
> save a multiple of its size when packages start using it instead of
> defining their own version each. For example, there are already
> gnus-string>, org-string>, and also org-string>=. And there are also
> quite many lambdas implementing string>, e.g., in emacs/lisp/help.el,
> so the addition of string> can in fact reduce the Emacs footprint if
> it gets used there.
Then again, introducing string> in version X of Emacs means that
all these packages are still bound to carry their own versions
until their respective maintainers decide to drop support for
pre-X Emacs versions.
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Ivan Shmakov <=
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