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 10:59:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3v9y57b7w.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28sv1omiu.fsf@paulwrankin.com> (Paul W. Rankin's message of "Mon, 20 May 2019 13:03:21 +1000")
"Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com> writes:
> Then it would be a case of augmenting the "unquote" ,VAR and "splice"
> ,@VAR reader constructs:
>
> (quoteval (1 2 (unquote a) 5 (splice b) 8 ))
> -> (1 2 (3 4) 5 6 7 8)
I'm not sure this would really help much with comprehension --
especially the (splice b) thing. That looks like a function call, but
modifies the structure of list of the parent sexp, which is quite
magical indeed.
,@b at least tells the reader "there may be something here that's odd",
which I think may help comprehension.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-20 8:59 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 [this message]
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
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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