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: why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp? Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:46:39 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87io63adn4.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87mvvjeg29.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87eggvebfs.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87pp0eckss.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87a8rhcypj.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87fv19asrn.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87vba49vzs.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.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 1445215833 8757 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2015 00:50:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:50:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 19 02:50:30 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 1Znyej-0001ft-72 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:50:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znyeh-0004gu-Km for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:50:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: individual.net jZJVPHM9vm6HwI6iqqa2nwvUhvLKm3H0fA8a9w2jjjyF0ETvqH Cancel-Lock: sha1:YTdiOGQ5YzAxOTE3OTA2ZGFlM2MzYmZiNjFlM2E0Mjg0NjQ1ZmI4Yw== sha1:Fx5DvDxUYWF2pGuETImXRQZjiyg= 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:215465 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:107749 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" > writes: > >> And even lisp, for example, doesn't have a literal >> syntax for a lot of lisp data type, such as hash >> tables or CLOS objects. I mentionned emacs lisp >> buffers, but a lot of emacs editing data structures >> don't have any literal syntax. > > Most likely the need for such syntax is proportional > to the frequence by which the feature is used. Yes. There is also some historical reasons, the older the type, the best/more literal syntax it has. -- __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