Re: elisp - common lisp - new calendrical calculations

[Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net>]

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Thanks, Drew. I'll try emas-devel@gnu.org.

On 13 June 2011 11:19, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

>
> > I would like to add a "module" to Emacs for converting
> > from Gregorian dates into traditional Indian/Hindu dates
> > (Bikrama Samvat), and, perhaps more>  importantly, for
> > calculating Hindu holidays.
> >
> > I found a very nice set of functions for doing so implemented
> > in Common Lisp in *Deshow, Nachum and Reingold, Edward M. 2008.
> > _Calendrical Calculations_. New York: Cambridge University
> > Press, 3rd edn*. What is the best way of using this code in
> > Emacs? I know that Emacs Lisp is different from Common Lisp -
> > and I also know that there is/are package(s?) for using Common
> > Lisp within Emacs.
> >
> > What I don't know is:
> > (1) Can this code just be converted into Emacs Lisp?
> > Or are there bits of it which would require Common Lisp?
>
> I can't help you directly, but you might want to pose this question to
> emacs-devel@gnu.org.
>
> IIRC, Ed Reingold wrote the calendar stuff for Emacs (in Emacs Lisp), so it
> is
> likely that either this has already been done for Emacs (perhaps in a later
> version than the one you're using) or it will be done.  In any case, try
> asking
> the Emacs developers about this (emacs-devel@gnu.org).
>
>
>


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