From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elisp from CL transition guide
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:24:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877inv33kc.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bqd7g7tx.fsf@pu100877.student.princeton.edu
Tamas Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> writes:
> I have some Common Lisp programming experience, and would like to use
> Emacs Lisp for simple tasks. I found introductions to Elisp, but what
> I am looking for is some guide that would tell me the differences from
> CL, to get started quicker. I already found that there is no
> defparameter or format etc. Is there some page where these
> differences are listed?
The main gotcha is that in emacs lisp there is only dynamic binding,
no lexical binding (and therefore no closure).
What you could do is to still use Common Lisp to program emacs lisp
stuff, with emacs-cl, which is a CL implementation.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-16 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-16 9:14 elisp from CL transition guide Tamas Papp
2007-08-16 9:47 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-16 10:05 ` Petter Gustad
2007-08-16 10:58 ` Daniel Jensen
2007-08-16 12:18 ` Tamas Papp
2007-08-16 12:43 ` Daniel Jensen
2007-08-16 12:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-16 13:30 ` How to indent sql lu
2007-08-18 6:39 ` elisp from CL transition guide Tim Cross
2007-08-16 15:24 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2007-08-18 6:21 ` Tim Cross
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