From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: implementing a reader macro Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 22:18:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87h738978d.fsf@mail.jao.io> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4875"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:pQH5A7NmMkpshPFzaqox00ATTC8= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 23 00:08:52 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oF0pI-00017D-Oo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:08:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46950 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oF0pH-000154-O7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2022 18:08:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oF0oc-0000Oj-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2022 18:08:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:46836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oF0ob-0002gV-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2022 18:08:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oF0oX-000069-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:08:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Attribution: jao X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-URL: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:292485 Archived-At: 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)