Re: 10 problems with Elisp, part 10

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> I dont know of an editor which doesn't have a concept of
> buffers or the buffer. However, the GNU Emacs approach,
> where you move poimt and then call fuctions which operate at
> poit, is not the only possible way. [...]

Well, okay, good effort obviously, and thanks for sharing the
history as well.

> When people criticize this functiob/command calling
> convention, it is not clear to me what other alternative
> they would prefer.

Okay, sure!

I would like something that is spacier, faster, easier to edit
and read, with features to set it up completely.

[
  end  :range     0<   :default 73 :prefix-arg
  step :range-cut 2-10 :default 7
  i    :range     0<=  :default 0
]

Even shorter:

[
  end  :r  0<   :d 73 :pa
  step :rc 2-10 :d 7
  i    :r  0<=  :d 0
]

Also it would have: :prompt-string (:ps), :doc-string (:ds),
and so on.

Since people didn't like my use of the prefix-arg, one would
have to have a :prefix-arg-policy as well then :)

Anyway, not saying anyone should do it necessarily or anything
like that, just saying that would be a fast, safe,
easy-to-edit, and easy-to-read "interface interface" for the
formal parameters, to me, it would be a pretty much optimal
solution for the purpose.

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