From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:16:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tmngri3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA01p3qZq=Ovv=Tmr3aBhYy+VqLy2_GjDTOQBQndBWkpYE33+w@mail.gmail.com> (Oleh's message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:04:30 +0100")
Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Stephen,
>
>> > >
>> > > This is my first attempt of modifying the C source of Emacs.
>> > > The goal is to add a new reader syntax:
>> > >
>> > > #(foo bar) should translate to (short-lambda (foo bar))
>> >
>> > Thanks, but I'd strongly prefer not to baking this syntax into the elisp
>> > reader.
>>
>> XEmacs is -1 on this change for the same reasons Daniel gives.
>>
>> I also don't like it because the convention is to use "#c" (where c is
>> some character) for new syntax (eg, XEmacs uses #r"" for "rawstring
>> syntax", where the benefit is huge because of the unreadability of
>> regexps in ordinary strings).
>
> Note that it only takes the "#([^\"]" spot. The "#c" convention is
> completely untouched, unless "c" is "(".
>
> Of course, I'm open to other variants, if this isn't accepted, maybe
> "#l(foo bar)". The initial suggestion would be immediately familiar to
> any Clojure programmer. Clojure is a bit more popular than Elisp,
> judging by 8000 vs 3000 questions on Stack Overflow,
Apparently we have better documentation and/or smarter users.
> and 25,000 vs 22,000 repositories on Github.
And Elisp is, after all, not a general-purpose scripting language but an
editor extension language. At any rate, both of these numbers appear
vastly inflated. I suspect that the "Elisp" category probably is
covered by any project that bothers with providing a major mode for
editing its files.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-22 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-21 21:38 [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Oleh
2015-01-21 22:28 ` samer
2015-01-21 22:37 ` Oleh
2015-01-21 23:36 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-21 23:46 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 0:54 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 0:57 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 1:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 2:21 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-22 13:35 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2015-01-22 7:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 8:04 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 8:16 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-01-22 9:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22 9:19 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 8:52 ` René Kyllingstad
2015-01-22 9:17 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:27 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:45 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:52 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 10:05 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 16:57 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-01-23 0:54 ` Leo Liu
2015-01-24 23:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-22 10:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 10:20 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 14:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:31 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 1:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 10:22 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 10:32 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 10:40 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 10:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-01-22 11:03 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 14:35 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:44 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 1:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:48 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-23 1:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 11:03 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-22 9:35 ` René Kyllingstad
2015-01-22 9:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:53 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 10:22 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 12:37 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 12:46 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-22 12:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 13:07 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 22:10 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-23 9:28 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-24 1:09 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-24 8:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2015-01-23 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-22 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 17:22 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 20:34 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 23:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 23:38 ` Reader macros (Was: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal) Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 9:33 ` Reader macros David Kastrup
2015-01-23 11:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 12:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-23 10:34 ` [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 10:47 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 11:53 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 12:02 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 11:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 13:18 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 22:25 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 7:44 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 23:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 18:30 ` Artur Malabarba
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2015-01-26 22:22 Barry OReilly
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