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From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:30:43 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdUY-LiLogyFc5PReytQ51=E6vOUVzHJhMiAgjc3SavBJF8jA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfvb2anpr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

>>     #(foo bar) should translate to (short-lambda (foo bar))
>
> Hmm...
>
> Not completely sure where I stand on this.
> A few notes:
> [...]
> - But the current Elisp implementation is not good at handling function
>   calls efficiently, so offering a very short syntax like #(foo bar) is
>   kind of lying to the programmer.

OTOH, 98% of elisp code doesn't care *that* much about efficiency. And
the programmers who need to write that 2% will look into it and learn
about the function call ineficiency.

As an example of the former, see how popular the (repeatedly
mentioned) dash library is. It's full of ineficient code (most
functions and macros are implemented in the simplest way, not the
fastest). Yet, it's very widely used among the repositories.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-22 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-21 21:38 [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Oleh
2015-01-21 22:28 ` samer
2015-01-21 22:37   ` Oleh
2015-01-21 23:36     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-21 23:46       ` Oleh
2015-01-22  0:54         ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22  0:57           ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22  1:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22  2:21   ` Drew Adams
2015-01-22 13:35     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2015-01-22  7:20   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22  8:04     ` Oleh
2015-01-22  8:16       ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22  9:07       ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22  9:19         ` Oleh
2015-01-22  8:52   ` René Kyllingstad
2015-01-22  9:17     ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22  9:27       ` Oleh
2015-01-22  9:38         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22  9:45           ` Oleh
2015-01-22  9:50             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22  9:52               ` Oleh
2015-01-22  9:57                 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 10:05                   ` Oleh
2015-01-22 16:57                     ` Ivan Andrus
2015-01-23  0:54           ` Leo Liu
2015-01-24 23:33           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-22 10:15         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 10:20           ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 14:21             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:31               ` Oleh
2015-01-23  1:03                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 10:22           ` Oleh
2015-01-22 10:32             ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 10:40               ` Oleh
2015-01-22 10:56             ` Tassilo Horn
2015-01-22 11:03               ` Oleh
2015-01-22 14:35             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:44               ` Oleh
2015-01-23  1:11                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:48               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-23  1:17                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 11:03           ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-22  9:35       ` René Kyllingstad
2015-01-22  9:45         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22  9:49         ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22  9:53           ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 10:22         ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 12:37   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 12:46     ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-22 12:49       ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 13:07         ` Oleh
2015-01-22 22:10           ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-23  9:28             ` David Kastrup
2015-01-24  1:09               ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-24  8:29                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2015-01-23 10:33             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-22 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 17:22   ` Oleh
2015-01-22 20:34     ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 23:36       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 23:38         ` Reader macros (Was: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal) Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23  9:33           ` Reader macros David Kastrup
2015-01-23 11:45             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 12:27               ` David Kastrup
2015-01-23 10:34         ` [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 10:47           ` Oleh
2015-01-23 11:53             ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 12:02               ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 11:50           ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 13:18             ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 20:24           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 20:52             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 22:25               ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23  7:44       ` Oleh
2015-01-22 23:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 18:30   ` Artur Malabarba [this message]
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2015-01-26 22:22 Barry OReilly

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