From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: introduction to lisp Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 12:03:07 +0200 Message-ID: <86vantbokk.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497780240 30268 195.159.176.226 (18 Jun 2017 10:04:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:04:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 18 12:03:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dMX3j-0007Wq-0C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 12:03:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMX3m-0002My-Lf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 06:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMX3A-0002Mm-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 06:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMX37-0007kN-AT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 06:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35715 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMX37-0007kJ-4T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 06:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dMX2z-0005n6-LT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 12:03:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:yTpmV+EDmcVaSZWhlsiNBOYuFFY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113521 Archived-At: Jude DaShiell wrote: > This material might be useful for lisp and > those writing buster.js code. It might also be > somewhat incorrect too. > > http://cjohansen.no/ A very ambitious article/project! Here is the direct link: http://cjohansen.no/an-introduction-to-elisp/ Try byte-compiling the code! It will tell you some things to improve, I think. But I don't know since I get an error on line 24: (void-variable open-paren-pairs-count) in cond When the byte-compiler is silent and the program works there is a fair chance the program is good. Code style - consider replacing 'if X' with `when' and 'if not X' with `unless' when there isn't a second branch. Then there is no need for explicit `progn's. Also I would write (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-d") 'buster-disable-test) like this: (global-set-key "\C-c\C-d" #'buster-disable-test) Keep it up! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573