From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 22:31:59 +0300 Message-ID: References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> <17495.932.70900.796282@parhasard.net> <17495.16060.386251.695636@parhasard.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146598379 28236 80.91.229.2 (2 May 2006 19:32:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 19:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 02 21:32:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb0bU-0004gx-B3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 21:32:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb0bT-0002vG-S8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 15:32:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb0bK-0002v8-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 15:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb0bG-0002tk-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 15:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb0bG-0002tf-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 15:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fb0bT-0005rD-Ky for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 15:32:11 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-31-178.inter.net.il [80.230.31.178]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DGK60834 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 2 May 2006 22:31:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Aidan Kehoe In-reply-to: <17495.16060.386251.695636@parhasard.net> (message from Aidan Kehoe on Tue, 2 May 2006 13:13:00 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53810 Archived-At: > From: Aidan Kehoe > Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 13:13:00 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I don't know what you mean: the other objections were technical as > > well. > > I would rate questions of aesthetics ``ugliness'' and prose style as > non-technical. I don't propose to impose that judgement on you, but I do > think it reasonable. The discussion was about quite a few technical issues, only one of which was aesthetics. > > ``Full of bugs''? > > Indeed; each READCHAR can call arbitrary Lisp, so something like > > case 'M': > c = READCHAR; > if (c != '-') > error ("Invalid escape character syntax"); > c = READCHAR; > if (c == '\\') > c = read_escape (readcharfun, 0, byterep); > return c | meta_modifier; > > has two clear bugs in eight lines. Yeah, right. If you want your suggestions and opinions to be considered seriously, my advice is to drop the attitude. But I won't impose that advice on you.