From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: plists, alists, and hashtables
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 14:36:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46508088-943c-4012-b22c-b46d74c41ca4@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2t9bir3.fsf@lifelogs.com>
> So as a first cut, maybe <(k1 . v1) (k2 . v2)> and
> <<(k1 . v1) (k2 . v2)>> would be a good syntax
The last thing we need in Emacs Lisp is to gratuitously hard-code
such syntax. Half the point of Lisp is to let people define DSLs,
including their syntax.
Unfortunately, in Emacs Lisp we do not (yet) have reader macros.
But that is all the *more* (not less) reason not to hard-code
such syntax restrictions into the definition of Lisp itself.
Working on adding reader macros to Emacs Lisp would be (very!)
helpful. Hard-coding < and << syntax is not helpful (IMHO).
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2015-08-05 20:08 ` plists, alists, and hashtables Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-05 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-05 21:36 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-08-05 21:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.7860.1438807554.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-06 1:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <mailman.7862.1438810623.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-06 1:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-07-31 21:42 How to iterate over properties in a plist? Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-31 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.7705.1438381807.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-31 23:33 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.7750.1438469396.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-04 10:15 ` plists, alists, and hashtables (was: How to iterate over properties in a plist?) Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <mailman.7809.1438684158.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-04 11:23 ` plists, alists, and hashtables Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-05 4:36 ` plists, alists, and hashtables (was: How to iterate over properties in a plist?) Rusi
2015-08-05 6:12 ` plists, alists, and hashtables Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-05 9:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-05 12:20 ` Rusi
2015-08-06 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
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2015-08-07 16:33 ` Rusi
2015-08-05 17:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-05 18:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-05 19:30 ` Barry Margolin
2015-08-05 19:40 ` Robert Thorpe
2015-08-05 21:11 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-06 15:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-06 18:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-06 20:19 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-06 21:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-07 0:23 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-06 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-05 13:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-06 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.7890.1438888393.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-06 20:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-06 20:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-06 21:10 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.7902.1438895429.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-06 21:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-06 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-07 1:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-07 7:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-07 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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2015-08-08 3:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-08 13:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-08 14:51 ` Rusi
2015-08-07 0:08 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-07 2:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-07 7:53 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-07 11:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-07 11:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-07 17:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-07 19:21 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.7952.1438975314.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-08 3:52 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-07 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
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