From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Guile in Emacs Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:10:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4BC6212E.1080401@harpegolden.net> References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87wrxrr4md.fsf@gnu.org><3vsk8ecg6a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <873a0euot4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <873a0cyv3r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87aauiho3y.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com><1271028837.6164.55.camel@dell-desktop.example.com><1271102739.6067.38.camel@dell-desktop.example.com><8039yz34ka.fsf@tiny.isode.net><1271173887.6067.53.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> <87ljcqqxoc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9CB3C61E04184201A6DE12FE4E1EE853@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271277118 1402 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2010 20:31:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:31:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 14 22:31:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1O29Fb-0007Jj-HE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:31:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52820 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O29Fa-0007dO-V4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:31:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O28us-0002vj-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33344 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O28uo-0002qB-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O28un-0002BK-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:55479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O28um-0002BE-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.54.194] (87-198-54-194.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.54.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A5E964C; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:10:23 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) In-Reply-To: <9CB3C61E04184201A6DE12FE4E1EE853@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123665 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > The main and most important difference from Elisp, for both CL and Scheme, lies > in more robust support for lexical scoping. CL's approach to mixing lexical and > dynamic scoping would be a reasonable one for Emacs Lisp. islisp's [1] approach is a little bit better IIRC. Islisp impls are few and far between of course. Emacs Lisp and CL or Islisp are far, far closer than emacs lisp and scheme. [1] http://islisp.info/