From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guidelines for the "symbol" syntax class
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 04:01:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5689D281.6060207@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXog5fO_h5UNnVR67EJtT+u7+G-BVMFV3FnJgK=weGj0m_w@mail.gmail.com>
(Cc-ing emacs-devel)
On 01/04/2016 03:46 AM, John Yates wrote:
> I think that you are confusing issues of syntax and symbol resolution.
I'd put the question this way: should the symbol correspond more to an
atomic expression in a given language, or should it be the "name" of the
identifier or atom denoted by the expression.
To give a distant example: in Perl an PHP, you usually declare and use a
variable by prefixing its name with $. Should $ be a symbol constituent?
Both perl-mode and cperl-mode say no.
> emacs' notion of symbol is purely syntactic.
And that's the model I'm trying to work in. Again, I'm not trying to
determine qualified names.
> Starting with the the
> current symbol collection framework you could build a purely syntactic
> model of qualified names that should cover a very large set of
> contemporary languages.
I'm not sure how you think I could do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-04 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-03 5:09 Guidelines for the "symbol" syntax class Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-03 22:56 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04 0:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-04 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-04 0:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-04 1:13 ` John Yates
2016-01-04 1:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2016-01-04 2:01 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2016-01-04 0:55 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04 1:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-04 2:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-04 3:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2016-01-04 2:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
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