On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:00:36 +0100 Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I know that the "n-" prefix means that it is destructive. But why "n-"? > I also know that this comes from Common Lisp, but still -- why the > letter "n-"? > > TIA, Paul Graham writes in ANSI Common Lisp (Chapter 12, page 202, footnote 2): The n originally stood for "non-consing." Steve Berman --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
