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: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 05:52:28 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87mvy2jv2b.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> <87d1yzl3qz.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87si7vqakb.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 1439006122 10027 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2015 03:55:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 03:55:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 08 05:55:18 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 1ZNvE4-0002no-A5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2015 05:55:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51851 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNvE3-0005Ql-ME for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 23:55:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: individual.net HWPDDM9AIyQUJKoHUxWHggqT/a06qOwbYziO8qyur3CzEJhcGk Cancel-Lock: sha1:MWZhMmU2ZmZlMDgzNDhmZmMwNGY4OWRlNWMzODYwMjQ0YjEzOTk0ZQ== sha1:VTV9wDZ75PF5YYQDzSMfu1FQtus= 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:214059 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:106344 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > SM> Check the emacs-devel mailing-list. It was discussed not very long ago > SM> (a year or two, maybe?). >> I think you maybe mean this? >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00618.html >> Started with "[PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous >> function literal" > > Yes. > >> I don't see an actual decision regarding reader macros, just a lot of >> discussion. Should I start a new thread? Or did you mean >> a different thread? > > There was no real decision, I just pointed out that support in the > tooling makes CL-style reader macros rather undesirable: they're > too powerful. In the context of emacs, one could have a declarative definition of reader macros; basically just an attributed grammar. Then it can be used to define the reader macro parser, the formatter, and the structured editing function. Just like in the synthesizer editor. -- __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