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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>, 36496@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 07:59:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93733c07-dfdb-44e7-9d74-88f0c35a3108@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0C783D67-9502-408B-B845-5599BD596361@acm.org>

> The rx notation is useful and complex enough to merit inclusion in the
> manual.
>
> Right now, it's mainly described in the `rx' doc string, which is fairly
> well-written but quite long and a bit unstructured. Describing it in the
> manual permits a different pace and style of exposition, the inclusion of
> examples and related information, structured into separate sections with
> cross-references.

Indeed.  Bonne initiative !
Thanks for working on this.

Like `cl-loop' and Unix or GNU/Linux `find',
`rx' is practically a language unto itself.
But fortunately (unlike `cl-loop') it is
quite Lispy.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-04 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-04 12:13 bug#36496: [PATCH] Describe the rx notation in the lisp manual Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-04 14:59 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-07-04 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-05 14:13   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-06  9:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 11:33       ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-06 11:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 18:56           ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-06 19:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 19:45               ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-07  2:29                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-07 11:31                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-07 14:33                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-25 15:12                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-06 19:12             ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-06 11:59         ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-06 23:56         ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-06  0:10   ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-06  6:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 23:59       ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-07  0:36         ` Drew Adams
2019-07-07 23:51           ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-08  0:56             ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 23:46               ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-09  0:19                 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 23:44             ` Richard Stallman

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