From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:28:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87wq4d6e27.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <54C05269.7050602@dancol.org> <87h9vj6kzz.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <54C0F1DE.2020300@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422005901 7991 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2015 09:38:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk, dancol@dancol.org, Oleh , bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 10:38:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1YEah1-0006q8-QL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:38:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57831 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEah1-0006IC-2c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:38:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEagg-0006FO-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:37:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEagf-0000Iz-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49682) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEagf-0000Iv-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:37:57 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56846 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEagW-0000tk-00; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:37:48 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1116EE07A7; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:28:48 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:10:33 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181654 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I have nothing against adding new features to Emacs Lisp, > but I think that better handling of variable-width text > and ability to justify it with partial-width spaces > would do a lot more good for _users_ of Emacs. I don't think that work on those features would be in competition: different people are interested both in programming and in using those. -- David Kastrup