From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: plists, alists, and hashtables Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:47:16 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87d1yzl3qz.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <876150vwaa.fsf@mbork.pl> <873803x5q4.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87a8u7we9s.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <877fp8t9ru.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87h9ocm02t.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87h9obsv3z.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87y4hnlela.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87d1yzs5si.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438948231 32567 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2015 11:50:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:50:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 07 13:50:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZNgAJ-0005xL-EW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:50:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNgAI-0003bA-Nl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 07:50:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Trace: individual.net YPGDcv/uz8Jz8MmG8Mg/qApSaVht78NQpo162+0VkFQ6RDlwiP Cancel-Lock: sha1:MzEzMjUyMzQxNzY5ZDFhYTgyZmU4OWQ1MTIyZjhlMWY2NDZlM2Y1ZA== sha1:kkysOTRJdnT+6KgG1gqdx6yeUyU= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214032 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106317 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:53:05 +0200 "Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote: > > PJB> And this is why we feel the lack of reader macros, since that would > PJB> clearly allow you to write a new syntax in a user library, instead of > PJB> having to beg it from the emacs lisp language itself. >>> >>> Is this work already planned? > > PJB> Well, once emacs got to git, I cloned it to do that, add CL packages and > PJB> reader macros to emacs. But unfortunately I've not worked on it since. > > PJB> But I'm planing a take over :-) I'm writing a C parser in CL, so that I > PJB> may read the C sources of CL, and then translate them into maintainable > PJB> CL. Then I will be able to compile a CL GNU emacs core, that would be > PJB> 100% bug-for-bug compatible with GNU emacs, and on which you could run > PJB> all the .el (and even .elc) you'd want. > > PJB> But since the core would be written in CL, I could now provide features > PJB> found in CL and in CL implementations, such as FFI, threads, packages, > PJB> readtables, etc, by merely providing access to the underlying CL API. > > Let me rephrase my question: is the work of reader macros already > planned for the Emacs core as an incremental feature? I'm not saying > your project is not valuable, but it seems a bit far in the future. AFAIK, not by the emacs maintainers. But this is free software, you are free to do it yourself! -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk