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: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:09:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <54C05269.7050602@dancol.org> <87h9vj6kzz.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <54C0F1DE.2020300@dancol.org> <87wq4d6e27.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422061826 12377 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2015 01:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk, dancol@dancol.org, ohwoeowho@gmail.com, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 24 02:10:25 2015 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 1YEpEu-0001rK-SD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:10:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpEt-0004X5-T0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpEg-0004Vx-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:10:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpEe-0006s9-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:10:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51305) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpEe-0006s1-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:10:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpEd-0001TN-0y; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:09:59 -0500 In-reply-to: <87wq4d6e27.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:28:48 +0100) 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:181706 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. ]]] > > I have nothing against adding new features to Emacs Lisp, > > but I think that better handling of variable-width text > > and ability to justify it with partial-width spaces > > would do a lot more good for _users_ of Emacs. > I don't think that work on those features would be in competition: > different people are interested both in programming and in using those. I expect that any project that gets pushed on the list will draw interest from some people who might equally well have got excited about a different project. -- 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.