From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:42:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87ziznom2f.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <87oag4jk74.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2qrki45.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83mvvnooo4.fsf@gnu.org> <83lhb7oo4e.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444682597 19935 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2015 20:43:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:43:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 22:43:09 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 1Zljw5-000278-Bt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:43:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zljw4-00041o-V0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38451) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zljw1-00041Y-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zljvy-0006VG-HT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:36540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zljvy-0006V7-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDECA6F2005 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:42:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nRdhs6kS-e6h for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:42:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (103-115.echostar.pl [213.156.103.115]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B7AB26F2003 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:42:55 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 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:191399 Archived-At: On 2015-10-12, at 22:11, John Wiegley wrote: > If that Lisp can get close enough to Emacs Lisp, so that knowing one means > knowing the other, we've just made it easier for anyone to write what we now > have to write in C. By no means am I an expert on this, but isn't "close enough, yet not identical" a recipe for nasty bugs? > I can imagine that complex things, like type declarations, would be done with > anti-quoted blocks, or by direct support for inclusion of header files. > > John Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University