From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: handling parenthesis and quotes
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:02:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pcohcugozgr.fsf@shuttle.math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ep8j5q$l0c$1@lust.ihug.co.nz
+ Adam <nospam@example.com>:
| A related newbie question might be, is this the
| usual approach for 'incremental programming' by
| Lisp users ? That is; write a function,
| then append that function to a file of work
| with append-to-file ?
I don't know what most people do. Incremental programming is more
about ways to build a program than about particular editing habits, I
think.
It is all about building your application bit by bit, testing as you
go, and basing your work on what went before - and occassionally going
back and redoing things when you discover that design mistakes become
a hindrance to further work. How people save and organize their work
is probably highly individual, but appending new functions willy-nilly
to a file seems too disorganized for my taste. Rather, I work on the
program files themselves, trying to keep related functions
together. And whenever I have written a new function or rewritten an
old one, I evaluate the defun directly from the buffer (using C-M-x).
Then I use the interaction buffer mainly to test my work.
The same method works for Common Lisp using slime. And since slime
has facilities for making this style of work easy, I suspect something
like it is a popular method. 8-)
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-24 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-23 20:09 handling parenthesis and quotes Adam
2007-01-23 20:55 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-01-23 21:12 ` Adam
2007-01-24 7:24 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-01-24 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3530.1169666053.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-24 20:07 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-01-24 21:32 ` Adam
2007-01-24 22:02 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2007-01-25 13:53 ` Adam
2007-01-27 2:20 ` Tim X
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