Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Andreas Schwab]

Ivan Andrus <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> setcar is not entirely equivalent to rplaca -- they return different
> values.  That's why I gave it a different name.
>
>
> That appears to no longer be true (emacs-24 branch):

For some value of "no longer".

Changes in Emacs 1.6

* rplaca is now a synonym for setcar, and rplacd for setcdr.
 eql is now a synonym for eq; it turns out that the Common Lisp
 distinction between eq and eql is insignificant in Emacs.
 numberp is a new synonym for integerp.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, address@hidden
GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."