Re: introduction to lisp

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 06:59:14AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Kaushal Modi wrote:
> 
> > Example: - How do I bind F1? - Do C-h k F1..
> > Realize that emacs shows that as <f1> -
> > Simply wrap that with (kbd "...") and you
> > have (kbd "<f1>") - Put that in the
> > global-set-key or define-key form.
> 
> But that evaluates to [f1], so then why not
> 
>     (global-set-key [f1]
>       (lambda () (interactive) (message "Formula 1")) )

But that evaluates to

  (global-set-key [f1] #[nil "ÀÁ!‡" [message "Formula 1"] 2 nil nil])

(I just asked byte-compile to tell me that). So why not write that
right away?

Of course, that was a bit tongue-in-cheek ;-P

What I mean: sometimes it makes sense to let people go the
extra ten meters to meet the computer (mainly because there's
an interesting spot to meet [1]), sometimes it makes sense
to let the computer do the walk, perhaps because the spot to
meet is pretty boring (personally, I find conventions to name
keys pretty boring, to be honest).

Which is which depends, of course, on Things :)

[1] as is the case with lambda calculus and The Lisps.
   Giving up on traditional infix arithmetic may feel
   awkward at first, but tends to bring some kind of
   Enlightenment upon (some of) us. Then we get high
   and all worked up and try to convince others and
   they look at us with those strange looks ;-D

Cheers
- -- tomás
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