From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Saving a elisp data structure into string and evaluating it back into objects
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:12:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6nkbqqr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8409.1255096239.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:
> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:05:26AM +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>>>> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> This is not feasible using print and read, since not all lisp objects
>>>> are printable readably.
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> Wow, Pascal. Nice phrase. May I use it from time to time?
>
> As a native speaker, I think that should be "readably printable".
I don't think so, because readability is the result, not the manner of
printing. "readily printable", but "printable readably". It is
"printable in a readable manner", not "in a readable manner printable".
--
David Kastrup
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-10-07 8:05 ` Saving a elisp data structure into string and evaluating it back into objects Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-07 16:44 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.8243.1254933762.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-08 12:02 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-09 13:50 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.8409.1255096239.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-09 14:12 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2009-10-16 2:13 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-10-12 16:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-10-06 23:08 Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-07 12:57 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-10-07 15:09 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-07 15:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-10-07 16:23 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-08 22:51 ` Lennart Borgman
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