From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: list of elisp primitives ?
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 20:21:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfr46ua9.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <627F3815-987E-4E82-8118-EE559CA7721F@traduction-libre.org>
On 2019-12-22, at 03:59, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
> Is there a list of elisp primitive functions defined in C somewhere ?
>
> I was thinking that because of the sheer amount of functions in the elisp reference, it might be much easier to start programming with the primitives to understand how elisp works at its core, and then climb the ladder when need arises...
When you have a reasonable list of "basic functions" (as others said,
"primitives" might not be the best choice), what could be an interesting
exercise would be writing a metacircular Elisp interpreter.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-22 2:59 list of elisp primitives ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-22 3:21 ` Eduardo Ochs
2019-12-22 3:43 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
[not found] ` <CADs++6hB7ZKnEWOZ=XOGdA=W_CacCE2=354ARfNFtWvStaCF3g@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-22 4:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
[not found] ` <CADs++6j+niJy3hvrTEJ-LrqcitFuffX=1Duca7pU30a8qfh_zg@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-22 4:38 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-22 15:01 ` Stephen Berman
2019-12-22 17:31 ` Drew Adams
2019-12-26 17:39 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 18:00 ` arthur miller
2019-12-26 18:09 ` Drew Adams
2019-12-26 18:22 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-26 21:17 ` Eduardo Ochs
2019-12-27 0:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-22 14:56 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-12-22 22:34 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-22 19:21 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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