From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
Cc: db48x@db48x.net, eliz@gnu.org, conao3@gmail.com,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:53:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lHKSJ-0004Kv-6C@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m235xem7ln.fsf@matts-mbp-2016.lan> (message from Matt Armstrong on Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:45:40 -0800)
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> I have seen it called a "raw string literal" in other languages.
The concept of "literal" does not fit Lisp very well. It describe the
situation with other languages, where expressions are not objects,
only syntax. In those languages, you don't put a string into your
program, only a "literal" which represents a string value.
In Lisp, what you put in the program _is_ a string. What you write
in the textual code is not a "literal", it is the textual representation
of the string to put in the program.
I just saw that the term "literal" appears occasionally in the Emacs
Lisp Ref Manual. Would someone like to rewrite those parts so that they
fit the concepts of Lisp batter?
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-26 18:18 [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 18:27 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-26 18:53 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 19:03 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-26 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-26 20:23 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 20:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-26 20:39 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 20:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-26 20:50 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 20:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-26 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-26 20:34 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 19:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-26 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-27 0:39 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-02-27 16:14 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-27 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-01 5:19 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-02 5:45 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-03 5:53 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-03-03 6:14 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 2:47 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-04 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 16:55 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-05 5:44 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-05 5:39 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-05 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-06 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-06 6:04 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-07 6:13 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-07 17:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-06 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-06 9:51 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-06 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-07 6:08 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-27 20:41 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-02-28 6:22 ` Zhu Zihao
2021-03-01 5:26 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-01 12:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-01 12:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-02 5:59 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-02 9:56 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-02 10:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-02 10:55 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-02 11:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-02 11:26 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-02 11:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-02 11:52 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-02 12:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-02 14:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-02 14:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-02 15:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-02 11:41 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-02 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-02 14:46 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-02 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-02 16:07 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-03 7:31 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-03-03 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-02 20:36 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 0:42 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 8:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-03 9:25 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 9:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-03 10:02 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 10:11 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 10:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-03 11:48 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 10:12 ` Michael Albinus
2021-03-03 10:42 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 10:49 ` Michael Albinus
2021-03-03 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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