From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Wilfred Hughes <me@wilfred.me.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: make prog2 a macro
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:46:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2poncy53b.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFXAjY55qb4Eit+skAOb7+8bKDCsCc2ftfkKJD8L2QH7p1fohg@mail.gmail.com> (Wilfred Hughes's message of "Fri, 7 Oct 2016 00:16:51 -0400")
>>>>> "WH" == Wilfred Hughes <me@wilfred.me.uk> writes:
WH> I was looking at a list of Emacs' special forms, and noticed that prog2 is
WH> implemented in C. Is there any interest in moving this to a simple macro?
It seems it has always been in C, since the beginning of version history for
that file. I can't think of a reason it shouldn't be changed to a Lisp macro.
My desire is to move as much functionality into Emacs Lisp as is feasible.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-07 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-07 4:16 Proposal: make prog2 a macro Wilfred Hughes
2016-10-07 5:04 ` Tino Calancha
2016-10-07 7:46 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-10-07 20:34 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-07 8:08 ` Tino Calancha
2016-10-08 2:12 ` Wilfred Hughes
2016-10-08 2:35 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-10-08 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-08 3:40 ` Tino Calancha
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