From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Code cleanup.
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:03:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85zmbmhpty.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85hcxvhref.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon\, 23 Oct 2006 19\:29\:44 +0200")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> But it would probably be saner if tab-width were extended to
>>> allow, say, a cons-cell of initial offset and tab-width.
>>
>> Or a list (1 9 17 t)
>> (where t means to repeat tabs every "difference between last two
>> elements).
>
> Or a list (8 . #0) for repeated differences of 8, and (9 8 . #1) for
> that of 9. Too bad that this print syntax of
> (let ((n (list 9 8))) (setcdr (cdr n) (cdr n)) n)
> is not accepted by the Lisp reader.
>
> Circular lists are not really the most natural Lisp constructs...
Well, but one could still allow a thing like '(1 9 17 . 8) namely have
the first CDR that is not a list indicate the offset to use from then
on. In that way, just a single 8 will then "naturally" correspond to
the normal case, and '(1 . 8) would be fine for the diff case.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-23 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-23 11:55 Code cleanup David Kastrup
2006-10-23 16:50 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-23 17:29 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-23 18:03 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-10-23 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-25 18:03 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-25 19:01 ` David Kastrup
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