On 3 Mar 2013, Richard Fateman spake thusly:
> On 3/3/2013 12:23 AM, Andreas Eder wrote:
> > On 1 Mar 2013, Richard Fateman verbalised:
> >
> > > Yes.
> > > 1. Joel Moses preferred a shorter name for the program that
> > > he was typing many times. It also makes the text of the
> > > source code shorter.
> > But it would be even shorter, if m2 were a real alias for
> > schatchen. Then you wouldn't need the third argument, which is
> > always nil in the code. :-)
> I think it is sometimes t rather than nil. but in any case it is
> sometimes easier to see optimizations afterwards. Moses was not
> the last person to go over the code, so there may be other
> reasons.
Meanwhile I have looked at all the places where m2 is called. Its
third argument is nil everywhere. So I removed it an set splist to
nil locally within m2, since that was its effect.
It works and the testsuite runs without failures. Shall I commit
the code?
Andreas
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