From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Paduchikh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ?\_ patch Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 19:30:48 +0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r8akp3hj.fsf@dvp.imm.uran.ru> References: <200302061733.LAA24096@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200302070253.UAA25703@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200302070856.RAA00661@etlken.m17n.org> <5xk7gci39e.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <20030207132847.GA5105@gnu.org> <5xfzr0i1nx.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <20030207140204.GA6530@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044629220 19485 80.91.224.249 (7 Feb 2003 14:47:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:47:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Kim F. Storm" Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18h9mN-000548-00 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:46:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18h9vx-0005Bn-00 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:56:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18h9nY-0008Eb-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:48:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18h9mw-00083I-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:47:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18h9mq-0007yP-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:47:29 -0500 Original-Received: from relay.uran.ru ([195.19.137.69]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18h9m5-0007eY-00; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:46:41 -0500 Original-Received: from ait.home-net (dialup41.uran.ru [195.19.137.231]) by relay.uran.ru (8.12.5/eTn) with ESMTP id h17Evccf055366; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:57:39 +0500 (ES) Original-Received: from dima by ait.home-net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18h9Wi-0007ft-00; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 19:30:48 +0500 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <20030207140204.GA6530@gnu.org> (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:02:04 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Original-cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu Original-cc: ted@oconnor.cx Original-cc: Kenichi Handa Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11463 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11463 Hi! >>>>> Miles Bader writes: > Morever, `#' is _good_ becaues it's the general lisp syntax for special > syntax, so a lisp programmer will be much more likely to realize what's going > on (if he's unfamiliar with this particular bit of syntax) if he sees #\SPC > than if he sees ?SPC. If you will do this, why not introduce such alternative syntax for _all_ characters? It would give the advantage of being consistent with other lispish languages since both CL and Scheme use `#\' to denote characters.