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Replaced all occurrences of even? with evenp #342

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Also replaced occurrences of odd? with oddp.

Emacs Lisp provides evenp and oddp and apparently the use of (not defined) functions even? and odd? caused confusion for some readers. [I won't cry if you ignore this pull request.]

Also replaced occurrences of `odd?` with `oddp`.
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Emacs Lisp provides evenp and oddp

Only if you load the cl.el library, which is deprecated, at runtime.

the use of (not defined) functions even? and odd?

They're defined in the file that generates the examples, dev/examples.el.

That said, it's always irked me that the output of this file does not include their definitions.

Instead of using deprecated cl.el functions, my suggestion would therefore be to either change the examples so that they use some other built-in functions; use the corresponding cl-lib.el definitions; or change the example generation so that the definitions used therein are also published. My personal favourite would be the first option.

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Note also that you shouldn't modify README.md, as it is generated from other files, e.g. readme-template.md and dev/examples-to-docs.el.

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magnars commented Aug 11, 2020

How about 4) Rename to -even? and -odd? and include them in dash proper? Not because they are a perfect match for the dash API, but because they are slightly useful and would make running the examples easier?

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Is it really worth further blurring the boundaries of the Dash API for the sake of how and which examples are published?

I'm obviously not going to oppose the decision, I just think there are simpler solutions.

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magnars commented Aug 11, 2020 via email

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It wasn’t a decision. It was a suggestion. As implied by the question marks.

Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as accusatory. I only meant to say that I'm ultimately fine with any of the solutions, but don't think the generation of examples is worth going into too much trouble for.

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cfraizer commented Aug 16, 2020

Thanks for all the feedback.

I'll revert the changes to the README.md (of course)

And, if you concur, I'll go with @basil-conto 's first suggestion and alter the examples to use, say integerp or zerop? [I'm open to other suggestions and I'm okay if you suggest something else after seeing them changed.]

basil-conto added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 17, 2021
* dev/examples.el (odd?): Remove function.
(-drop-while, -partition-after-pred, -partition-before-pred)
(-each-while, -each-r-while): Replace odd? with built-in
functions (#342).

* README.md:
* dash.texi: Regenerate docs.
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And, if you concur, I'll go with @basil-conto 's first suggestion and alter the examples to use, say integerp or zerop? [I'm open to other suggestions and I'm okay if you suggest something else after seeing them changed.]

I've since been chipping away at the non-standard functions whenever I was changing tests for other reasons, and finally odd? started hanging low enough that I just eliminated the handful of cases left in commit ce4a344.

I'm not going to tackle even? or square very soon, so would you like to rebase this branch off master and continue from there?

I think such a cumulative change should be exempt from copyright paperwork, but if you'd like to continue contributing to Dash, Emacs, or other FSF-copyrighted projects, then I'd encourage you to start the copyright assignment process, if you haven't already :). If you're unfamiliar with this, see (info "(emacs) Copyright Assignment"). Thanks.

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