From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Raw string literals in Emacs lisp. Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:28:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878ungor1v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8761ijng08.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <871tt7lzro.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <53D567FD.4030708@porkrind.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406694530 29855 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2014 04:28:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david@porkrind.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Matthew Plant Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 30 06:28:45 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XCLVN-0002Ix-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 06:28:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48925 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCLVM-0001rh-SS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:28:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35788) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCLVK-0001ra-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCLVJ-0002Ko-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:28:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCLVJ-0002Kk-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:28:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCLVH-0006PY-Lb; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:28:39 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Matthew Plant on Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:26:01 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173274 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] If it can be parsed forwards it can be parsed backwards, Perhaps you mean it is possible in some theoretical sense. That's not the issue here. The Emacs sexp-scanning functions scan backwards in a simple way, and the syntax has to be suitable for them to handle. although it might not be immediately possible to do so. We need the backward scanning to work when the syntax is installed. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.