From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa@ni.aist.go.jp>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR)
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:20:10 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prv06uf9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87odakqqtn.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
Miles Bader writes:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> > > > How Pythonic!
> >
> > > No need for insults Stephen!
> >
> > You're welcome to take insult if you like, but I don't know a higher
> > compliment in language design
>
> Please tell me you're joking...
No, I'm not. You don't have to like their design goals, but to lack
respect for their success in achieving the ones they've chosen ...
well, go ahead, laugh at the Tao. That's what it's there for, says
so right on the label.
As for the particular proposal of Stefan's, it *is* very Pythonic.
(It's duck typing for sequences.) It's not particularly Emacs-Lisp-y,
what with aref and nth that do the same thing but to different types
of sequences, etc., and the dozen or more ways of implementing
dictionaries, all having distinct APIs for accessing properties by
keyword.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-14 4:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-13 2:36 (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR) Kenichi Handa
2008-02-13 2:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-13 3:48 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-13 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-13 18:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-13 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-13 22:49 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 1:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-14 1:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 1:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-14 1:49 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 18:10 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 22:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-15 1:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-15 1:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-15 7:27 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-15 12:58 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 23:37 ` Leo
2008-02-15 12:59 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 4:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-02-14 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-15 1:39 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-15 4:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-15 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-15 8:53 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-16 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-16 5:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-16 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-17 20:29 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-18 1:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 4:00 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-18 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-13 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-13 23:13 ` Miles Bader
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-15 7:11 Kenichi Handa
2008-04-15 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-17 1:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-07 19:31 Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-14 6:54 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-14 12:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-14 12:50 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-15 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-15 6:11 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
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