From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Emacs Lisp coding style question
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:47:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oax8x6z1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi List,
sometimes I wondered about the following coding style question, so I
decided to do it in public:
Often functions do a lot of work to gather some data and then do a
rather simple action with the gathered data:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun foo ()
(let* ((x (create-x))
(y (create-y))
(z (create-z x y))
(u (create-u z))
(v (create-v))
(w (create-w u v)))
(simple-action w)))
#+end_src
Thats the way I would do it, and I find it easy to write, read and
understand.
But (without being able to give concrete examples right now) I noticed
that advanced Lispers tend to call this 'C-style', consider the let
bindings unnessesary since the local vars are only used once, and
prefer this style:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun foo ()
(simple-action
(create-w
(create-u
(create-z (create-x) (create-y)))
(create-v))))
#+end_src
This looks more 'lispy' and might have a slight performance
advantage. But when the 'create-xyz' expressions grow in size the
whole thing might start to look very complicated and it becomes hard to
recognize that its just about `simple-action' with some gathered
data.
What would be the recommended style for Emacs Lisp, or is this just a
matter of taste?
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next reply other threads:[~2014-07-02 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-02 12:47 Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2014-07-02 14:19 ` Emacs Lisp coding style question Grant Rettke
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2014-07-02 12:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-07-02 13:14 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-02 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-02 14:04 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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2014-07-02 15:20 ` Barry Margolin
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