From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: why not "stripes" in: (let ((zebra 'stripes) ... ; strings vs symbols? Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:28:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87iou4dgjf.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87ha9nbof6.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87bnzvbk41.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388636926 1393 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2014 04:28:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 04:28:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 02 05:28:52 2014 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 1VyZtr-0001S0-Gm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 05:28:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43337 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyZtr-0001dv-2U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:28:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38135) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyZta-0001do-Gf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyZtT-0006Ta-6W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:28:34 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41622) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyZtT-0006TW-0I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:28:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VyZtR-0000fB-H0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 05:28:25 +0100 Original-Received: from 206-248-158-202.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.158.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 05:28:25 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-158-202.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 05:28:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-158-202.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/yAIOpvw/7IlKdVT3BPSlPTPnbg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:95226 Archived-At: > advantage of that. When you are used to not thinking > about types (as in Lisp) you don't want to do that > again. At least I don't. But please fill me in what the > fuss is about. Similarly to learning Lisp, learning to use a typed functional language like SML, is very useful to help you structure your thought process, even if you never use it, Stefan