From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LanX Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 17:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <49573280-66a9-40a8-b556-be598a559cdc@l6g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> References: <143c6d28-4423-4e43-9fc5-c0fb3340043b@c11g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> <0e994fe3-6dde-449f-879d-6701c7a195a9@e28g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> <8639x7x3jj.fsf@gmail.com> <87iq63wsvt.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291824700 6859 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 16:11:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:11:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 17:11:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQMcA-0004uu-WC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:11:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35302 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQMcA-00038X-3M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:11:34 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l6g2000vbo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.219.221.11 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275350767 22065 127.0.0.1 (1 Jun 2010 00:06:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 00:06:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l6g2000vbo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=94.219.221.11; posting-account=W9fpQwoAAADZYmkl-8sXk1VPxG3rq-Pd User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010040118 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178509 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75589 Archived-At: > This feature is called "homoiconicity". I understand your point, but IMHO for most code users write, they don't need to eval code at runtime (which all script languages I know can do BTW) I have not doubt that it is a castration of LISP's possibilities to allow users to write function( [1,2,3], {k=>v}) which is then translated to (function '(1 2 3) (k . v) ) before compilation. IMHO this plus some flow control already covers everything most users ever want.