From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 10:44:11 +0900 Message-ID: <87u08a7c44.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> <17492.29148.246942.842300@parhasard.net> <17493.12935.604847.524198@parhasard.net> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146447883 11353 80.91.229.2 (1 May 2006 01:44:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 01:44:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 01 03:44:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaNSo-0006En-NK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 03:44:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaNSo-0000do-7O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:44:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FaNSd-0000df-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FaNSZ-0000dH-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:44:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaNSY-0000dE-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.216.5.72] (helo=smtp02.dentaku.gol.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FaNWE-0002bO-0F; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:48:10 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-96-138.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.96.138] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1FaNSR-0003pB-3X; Mon, 01 May 2006 10:44:15 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8CF132F56; Mon, 1 May 2006 10:44:11 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Aidan Kehoe System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <17493.12935.604847.524198@parhasard.net> (Aidan Kehoe's message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:56:23 +0200") Original-Lines: 12 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53703 Archived-At: Aidan Kehoe writes: > I find _that_ distinctly ugly, but more of a problem with it than the > aesthetics is that it=E2=80=99s unfamiliar to everyone, Lisp people and J= ava people > alike. How about supporting both the "standard" syntax ("\u0123") and a flexible-length syntax like "\u{123}" (I seem to recall this a syntax like this being discussed on this list)? -Miles --=20 Freedom's just another word, for nothing left to lose --Janis Joplin