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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 14:47:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7fhjl0a.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21s0tnta1.fsf@paulwrankin.com> (Paul W. Rankin's message of "Mon, 20 May 2019 23:35:02 +1000")

"Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com> writes:

> On Mon, May 20 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure this would really help much with comprehension --
>> especially the (splice b) thing.  That looks like a function call, but
>> modifies the structure of list of the parent sexp, which is quite
>> magical indeed.
>
> All Emacs Lisp forms look like function calls.
>
>> ,@b at least tells the reader "there may be something here that's odd",
>> which I think may help comprehension. 
>
> Are you suggesting that ,@b is easier to comprehend than (splice b)? I think
> that is a hard case to make. Try to put yourself in the mindset of someone just
> learning Emacs Lisp.

I think this is a subjective matter, so the question is, as you say in
your other message, whether aliases should be added for those that
prefer the latter form; not which form each person finds most readable.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-20 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-20  3:03 Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20  3:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-22 15:44   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-20  8:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-20 13:25   ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 14:02     ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-20 14:26       ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 16:08         ` Ken Olum
2019-05-20 23:19   ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-21  2:06     ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-21  2:22       ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-21  2:39         ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-21 20:19       ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-22  2:46         ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22  7:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-22  8:55             ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22 15:57               ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-22 16:13                 ` 조성빈
2019-05-22 16:13               ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-22 22:40               ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-20  8:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-05-20 13:35   ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 13:47     ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-05-20 14:18       ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 14:48         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-20 15:25     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-05-20 23:21       ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-21  2:34         ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22 16:14 ` Sam Steingold

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