Re: Org to Markdown programmatically

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-05-05 18:47]:
> >> Anyway found lots of small mistakes that I corrected. I run
> >> it on all my blog post pages - and this article by far
> >> scored the highest, 79%
> >> 
> >>   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/blog/box-10/marco-antonio-barrera.html
> >
> > Scored for which term?
> 
> Overall score.

Overall score of how, what? Where?

> >>>   (let ((my-keywords '("TODO" hi-yellow
> >>> 		       "DONE" hi-green
> >>> 		       "URGENT" hi-red-b)))
> >>>     (while my-keywords
> >>>       (let ((keyword (pop my-keywords))
> >>> 	    (highlight (pop my-keywords)))
> >>> 	(highlight-regexp keyword highlight)))))
> >> 
> >> Hahaha, creative! :)
> >> 
> >> But go get yourself a proper loop, will you :)
> >
> > For me, proper loops in Emacs Lisp are `while' and mapping
> > functions. It gives me more clarity due to old habbits.
> 
> `while' is proper but not here as you `pop' twice in the body
> when you can iterate that.

I like popping.

I don't know why would the word "iterate" not relate to `while' here.

Show me how would you iterate on the above function.

When there are 2 elements to take out of the list and do something
with it, I like to pop it twice. Very handy, and why not.

Imagine if there are 3... popping thrice is so much easier than
thinking of what... I have no idea.

> Also my-keywords ... that name, also how it mixes two things,
> plus insists on a certain order without enforcing it.

You give me too much thinking here, more than it was necessary for the
function to work.

> Ever heard that once you pop you can't stop? That's what's going to
> happen, I'm afraid.

Since I have started changing `dolist' to `while' that is what
happened, there is often pop.

> > `dolist' and `dotimes', or cl-loop, I will never use in
> > Emacs Lisp. I may use it in Common Lisp.
> 
> Sorry, but your boycott notwithstanding, they are still Elisp
> functions, so actually you can't use them in CL :P

Maybe I am just bored. `while' loops seem to me easier
understandable, visible. Times change.

-- 
Jean

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