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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Correct line/column numbers in byte compiler messages [Was: GNU is looking for Google Summer of Code Projects]
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:09:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv9n0hucz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7dzgjal4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:41:30 -0400")

> I think fat-cons cells are cheap to implement (with (hopefully) no
> performance impact when not used or weird semantic artifacts like the
> fat-symbol approach you tried) and can work 99.9% right in the long term
> with an incremental way to get there.

Reminds me that another project could be to provide something like
Scheme's `syntax-rules` or `syntax-case`.  These could be attractive on
their own while also making it easier to correctly propagate source-level
line-number information.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-19 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-19 15:10 GNU is looking for Google Summer of Code Projects Rocky Bernstein
2020-03-19 17:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-19 17:56   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-19 18:05     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-19 18:19     ` Rocky Bernstein
2020-03-19 21:26     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-19 21:45       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-19 23:07         ` Rocky Bernstein
2020-03-19 20:34   ` Correct line/column numbers in byte compiler messages [Was: GNU is looking for Google Summer of Code Projects] Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-19 20:43     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-20 19:18       ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-21 11:22         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-21 15:30           ` Correct line/column numbers in byte compiler messages Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-21 16:28             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-21 18:37               ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-21 20:19                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-21 21:08                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-21 23:39                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-22 11:26                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-19 20:56     ` Correct line/column numbers in byte compiler messages [Was: GNU is looking for Google Summer of Code Projects] Rocky Bernstein
2020-03-19 22:05       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-20 19:25       ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-19 21:41     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-19 22:09       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-03-20 20:10       ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-20 21:23         ` Rocky Bernstein
2020-03-20 21:27         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-03-20 23:46           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-20 21:30         ` Stefan Monnier

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