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From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: implementing a reader macro
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 22:18:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h738978d.fsf@mail.jao.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv4jz8c2o4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

On Fri, Jul 22 2022, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> How difficult is it to implement a new reader macro for Elisp?
>> The one I particularly wish to be ported from Clojure is the "discard
>> macro" - `#_`. What it does is that it ignores the next form completely.
>
> Does `clojure-mode` support that correctly?

in my experience (i edit clojure daily), it does (FSVO "correctly",
defined by my usage patterns, of course).  at the language level, i find
this feature extremely useful, and i'm a very happy user inside
clojure-mode.

cheers,
jao
-- 
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real
toads. -Marianne Moore, poet (1887-1972)




  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-22 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-22 18:40 implementing a reader macro Ag Ibragimov
2022-07-22 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-22 21:18   ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz [this message]
2022-07-22 22:12   ` Ag Ibragimov
2022-07-22 23:07     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-22 20:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-22 22:16   ` Ag Ibragimov

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