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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 17:25:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3mujhup0t.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21s0tnta1.fsf@paulwrankin.com> (Paul W. Rankin's message of "Mon, 20 May 2019 23:35:02 +1000")

"Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com> writes:

> Are you suggesting that ,@b is easier to comprehend than (splice b)?

No.  But (splice b) looks like it's a normal form, but is
incomprehensible in how it works until you read the manual about it a
few times. 

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-20 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-20  3:03 Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20  3:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-22 15:44   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-20  8:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-20 13:25   ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 14:02     ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-20 14:26       ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 16:08         ` Ken Olum
2019-05-20 23:19   ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-21  2:06     ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-21  2:22       ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-21  2:39         ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-21 20:19       ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-22  2:46         ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22  7:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-22  8:55             ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22 15:57               ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-22 16:13                 ` 조성빈
2019-05-22 16:13               ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-22 22:40               ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-20  8:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-05-20 13:35   ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 13:47     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-20 14:18       ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-20 14:48         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-20 15:25     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-05-20 23:21       ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-21  2:34         ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-05-22 16:14 ` Sam Steingold

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