From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 16:19:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190520085241.GA5136@ACM> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="107858"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Paul W. Rankin" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 21 22:20:33 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hTBFN-000RrO-4o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2019 22:20:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTBFL-0004FU-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2019 16:20:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59131) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTBEQ-0004DG-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2019 16:19:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52589) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTBEQ-0005P9-7X; Tue, 21 May 2019 16:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hTBEP-0002CT-B0; Tue, 21 May 2019 16:19:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: (hello@paulwrankin.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236865 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'm only suggesting to give people > (particularly those new to Emacs) the freedom to choose a more > literal syntax that fits with the aesthetics of the surrounding > code. We must not do that. That would lead to such usage creeping into Lisp code. I don't believe this syntax would help people learn Lisp. If you have some hard evidence, that might convince me, but I think you are simply speculating. It seems impossible that changes in Emacs Lisp would convince people to start editing with Emacs. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)