From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:44:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18525"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: db48x@db48x.net, eliz@gnu.org, conao3@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Matt Armstrong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 05 06:45:33 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lI3HI-0004i8-VA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2021 06:45:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51242 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lI3HH-0002IS-U6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:45:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47758) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lI3GN-0001iz-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:44:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52089) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lI3GM-0004RH-Ef; Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:44:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lI3GL-000861-B4; Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:44:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Matt Armstrong on Thu, 04 Mar 2021 08:55:12 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:266005 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. ]]] > In Richard's text above he uses language that I consider confusing: "In > Lisp, what you put in the program _is_ a string." Why confusing? > Because if "put in program" is talking about source code, the statement > isn't true. A Lisp program, conceptually, is not the series of characters in a file. It is a series of Lisp expressions, of which those characters are the printed representation. -- 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)