From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>, Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:21:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b967d4a-ed4f-4034-bb93-0f67755b4140@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54C05269.7050602@dancol.org>
> > The goal is to add a new reader syntax:
> > #(foo bar) should translate to (short-lambda (foo bar))
>
> Thanks, but I'd strongly prefer not to baking this syntax into the elisp
> reader. IME, we tend not to use anonymous lambas enough to matter.
> Clojure is idiomatically pure-functional; we're not.
>
> I'd be more receptive to a generalized, CL-style reader-macro facility.
> You could then use that to implement this syntax, but locally.
+1 on all accounts, but especially for a CL-style reader-macro facility.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-22 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-21 21:38 [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Oleh
2015-01-21 22:28 ` samer
2015-01-21 22:37 ` Oleh
2015-01-21 23:36 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-21 23:46 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 0:54 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 0:57 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 1:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 2:21 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-01-22 13:35 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2015-01-22 7:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 8:04 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 8:16 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22 9:19 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 8:52 ` René Kyllingstad
2015-01-22 9:17 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:27 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:45 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:52 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 10:05 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 16:57 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-01-23 0:54 ` Leo Liu
2015-01-24 23:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-22 10:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 10:20 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 14:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:31 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 1:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 10:22 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 10:32 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 10:40 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 10:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-01-22 11:03 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 14:35 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:44 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 1:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:48 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-23 1:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 11:03 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-22 9:35 ` René Kyllingstad
2015-01-22 9:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:53 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 10:22 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 12:37 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 12:46 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-22 12:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 13:07 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 22:10 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-23 9:28 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-24 1:09 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-24 8:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2015-01-23 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-22 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 17:22 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 20:34 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 23:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 23:38 ` Reader macros (Was: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal) Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 9:33 ` Reader macros David Kastrup
2015-01-23 11:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 12:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-23 10:34 ` [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 10:47 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 11:53 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 12:02 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 11:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 13:18 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 22:25 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 7:44 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 23:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 18:30 ` Artur Malabarba
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2015-01-26 22:22 Barry OReilly
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