From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ?\_ patch Date: 07 Feb 2003 17:07:58 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5x65rwhy5d.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <200302061733.LAA24096@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200302070253.UAA25703@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200302070856.RAA00661@etlken.m17n.org> <5xk7gci39e.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <20030207132847.GA5105@gnu.org> <5xfzr0i1nx.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <20030207140204.GA6530@gnu.org> <87r8akp3hj.fsf@dvp.imm.uran.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044630677 26536 80.91.224.249 (7 Feb 2003 15:11:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:11:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18hA9E-0006qk-00 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 16:10:36 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18hAIo-0005S0-00 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 16:20:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hA8b-0003IP-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:09:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hA8G-0003Bn-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:09:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hA82-00033r-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:09:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hA7U-0002uW-00; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:08:48 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 38E637C012; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:08:46 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Dmitry Paduchikh In-Reply-To: <87r8akp3hj.fsf@dvp.imm.uran.ru> Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-cc: "Kim F. Storm" Original-cc: Kenichi Handa Original-cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu Original-cc: ted@oconnor.cx Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11465 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11465 Dmitry Paduchikh writes: > Hi! > > >>>>> Miles Bader writes: > > > Morever, `#' is _good_ becaues it's the general lisp syntax for special > > syntax, so a lisp programmer will be much more likely to realize what's going > > on (if he's unfamiliar with this particular bit of syntax) if he sees #\SPC > > than if he sees ?SPC. > > If you will do this, why not introduce such alternative syntax for > _all_ characters? It would give the advantage of being consistent with > other lispish languages since both CL and Scheme use `#\' to denote > characters. What is the CL and Scheme syntax for a space character ? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk