From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:20:52 +0900 Message-ID: <87a91buvqj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <54C05269.7050602@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421911314 13260 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2015 07:21:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Oleh , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 22 08:21:53 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEC5R-0003Jm-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:21:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51455 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEC5Q-00079p-Uu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 02:21:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41811) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEC4a-0005tE-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 02:21:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEC4W-0000js-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 02:21:00 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:36022) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEC4W-0000jk-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 02:20:56 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25F681C38B0; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:20:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0E2781A2D18; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:20:53 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <54C05269.7050602@dancol.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181555 Archived-At: Daniel Colascione writes: > On 01/21/2015 01:38 PM, Oleh wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > 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).