From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:36:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83mvvghydi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87oag4jk74.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2qrki45.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737xf9je9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pp0fm0j3.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kusx8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhb26eb9.fsf@gnu.org> <876126key3.fsf@gnu.org> <83fv1a6bfu.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1weo7u9.fsf@gnu.org> <83zizi3qr0.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhb1n81y.fsf@gnu.org> <83si594wt3.fsf@gnu.org> <87io64iigs.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kso1gr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wpuks5ek.fsf@T420.taylan> <83vba4i1z3.fsf@gnu.org> <87pp0cqgjf.fsf@T420.taylan> <83twpoi0sp.fsf@gnu.org> <878u70qf75.fsf@T420.taylan> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445189932 5864 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2015 17:38:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:38:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ludo@gnu.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich =?utf-8?Q?Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1=2FK?= =?utf-8?Q?ammer?=) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 18 19:38:43 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Znrur-0004L1-0V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:38:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34958 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znruq-00076X-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:38:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znrtl-0006IF-P8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znrtk-0001kM-UA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:37:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:40361) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znrtg-0001eW-B9; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWF00G00FA18G00@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:34:34 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWF00BCMFHM6450@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:34:34 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <878u70qf75.fsf@T420.taylan> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191983 Archived-At: > From: taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kamm= er) > Cc: ludo@gnu.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:06:22 +0200 >=20 > >> Though that doesn't seem to be an absolute requirement for letti= ng > >> libguile compile Elisp, since it can just treat Elisp strings as= a > >> separate data type, as GuileEmacs currently does. > > > > That'd be an inconvenience, since it will require a translation l= ayer > > between Emacs strings and Guile strings, and that will hamper > > performance. >=20 > I'm not sure in what situations such a translation would be necessa= ry. When we need to use Guile APIs from Emacs. That's one of the advantages of using Guile: that it implements a lot of functionality which it would be good to have in Emacs.