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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

  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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