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From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Docstring hack
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:50:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM=F=bAHodvXYP_vSY_wDUoOsskRvkLuP0b-B-MaicUg3F-SUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czdmlrd7.fsf@yahoo.com>

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On Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 8:25 AM Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> writes:
> > 4) Make a special read syntax for literal docstrings, e.g. #", and do
> away with the weird context-sensitive semantics of ordinary string literals
> altogether.
> >
> > Also, the test in read_literal_string should probably be for
> "will_dump_p" rather than the purify flag, since it's the dumping that
> prompts the deferral of docstring
> > loading, not the identification of constants.
> >
> > Any preferences?
>
> None in particular, except that option 4 is unacceptable as it is not
> compatible with older code, and is completely different from all other
> Lisp implementations.
>

Not compatible in what sense?
I'm not that familiar with lisp implementations - isn't Emacs's treatment
of a leading escaped literal newline already completely different?  Is
there a typical use of #" as a reader macro?  It's"undefined" according to
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node191.html

Thanks,
Lynn

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-30 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-30 12:14 Docstring hack Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 12:25 ` Po Lu
2022-07-30 12:50   ` Lynn Winebarger [this message]
2022-07-30 13:04     ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 13:32     ` Po Lu
2022-07-30 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 13:36   ` Po Lu
2022-07-30 15:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 15:38       ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 15:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 16:32           ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-30 16:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31  2:17               ` Po Lu
2022-07-31  6:27                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31  7:24                   ` Po Lu
2022-07-31  7:56                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31  8:48                       ` Po Lu
2022-07-31  9:14                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-31 22:31                           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-01 10:38                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-04  4:12                         ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 12:53                       ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 13:05                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31 20:29                           ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-08-01  1:05                             ` Po Lu
2022-08-01 11:07                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-31  8:03                   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-31 12:43                     ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 21:32                       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-02 16:55                         ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31 11:57               ` Lynn Winebarger
2022-07-31  0:52       ` Po Lu
2022-07-31  7:52     ` Stefan Monnier

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