From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: use Elisp to improve your Elisp - some code issues Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 17:59:37 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87lhdvuhhy.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <877fphvymu.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87twsjv16p.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438444858 18608 80.91.229.3 (1 Aug 2015 16:00:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 16:00:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 01 18:00:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLZDN-0003fy-Eo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2015 18:00:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54139 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLZDM-00025V-Sq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2015 12:00:48 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net /xet1QFy4tMnQSCZaCZ8/AU7X7zvirI8wP3NhPFuFpCSx/PxRn Cancel-Lock: sha1:ODIwODc1MTEzNjYxMzUwMmU5N2VkNDc5YWEzOWRjZTkwODVkZDEzNg== sha1:XXgpYtJH96fF1c+FBrI1yVbMJu4= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213906 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106191 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" > writes: > >> Perhaps you have notied some discrepancy here. >> Check: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy > > It would be more illustrative if you provide > a counterexample of the same construct which cannot be > caught by that or another regexp. It will be > interesting to see if that example is anything I would > put in my code, ever. It's easy. Try to simplify (- x x) for any sexp x, (assuming x doesn't side effect. Just something like (+ 2 y) or (+ (* a x x) (* b x) c). -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk