From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fren Zeee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ? Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:10:30 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87lj43at0i.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <877hflk6oc.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291742171 29422 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2010 17:16:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:16:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 07 18:16:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ193-0002RB-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:16:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ192-0003sN-QD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:16:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35623 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ13h-0001gl-Rh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:10:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ13f-0002Uq-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:10:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:55294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ13f-0002Ue-GW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:10:31 -0500 Original-Received: by gyg10 with SMTP id 10so125856gyg.0 for ; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:10:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=jMHk4m6wYhYAlevE4SgfxOqCnM0hdl6xy4wqEsNc1hQ=; b=mbqw0erJRuvtFNUgTw8cSr/q4HtXw6MOVvBUtq/tD9+OiO5lC5Kcptr5C2rIBgWDpb upueJc7nQoESTFnrweIX3EofdzynPjFHbcKFo5cQPGtaRHMz9XNMYOwtcpz6gurhDWeH 60YqmXv6k2NcMvkSC8VQFradTKbV92jYA5z9Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SI6ABsWfdQ9K1y0rNNPXqAiPqS1+NcKjQWhiH3db4nkff7DHduvgZewcuCwfkh6yJr awMNL1MR1ZpUj3OGtWiCosPAut9Z8YzhxN9cBneEmzuGyR9e3BCER+QCBnu5gbr7RDth y6WH+6VqQuz/XPp19SiDYVfGFH3dYsxMafTs4= Original-Received: by 10.231.16.131 with SMTP id o3mr7851970iba.38.1291741830458; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:10:30 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.231.35.195 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:10:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <877hflk6oc.fsf@ambire.localdomain> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75533 Archived-At: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () Fren Zeee > () Mon, 6 Dec 2010 07:41:21 -0800 > > =A0 > less piecewise-constructive and more table-oriented. > > =A0 I would certainly need a toy example or even ask for taking this > =A0 example and showing me how to do it. I am not familiar with this > =A0 table-oriented approach. > > I would rather help you understand those words than show you how to > apply them. =A0(This is more work for both of us, initially, but less > work in the long run.) =A0What do you think of when you read them? > I need an example. These are abstract concepts and can be conceptualized erroenously easily with resulting miscommunication. Just give a concrete example of the beast. and show what you meant by these terms. which table do you mean ? symbol table, call table, ?