From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Kyllingstad?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:52:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <54C05269.7050602@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421917434 12378 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2015 09:03:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:03:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Oleh , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 22 10:03:53 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 1YEDg9-0002i0-1o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:03:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEDg8-0003Dk-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:03:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEDV5-0001GM-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:52:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEDV4-0005KP-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:52:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::232]:54843) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEDV4-0005Jz-Pf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:52:26 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id nt9so304631obb.9 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:52:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nQE/Q+oKSStJP+8aH10hG9YUSOqwViaQMEhHxXk+cS8=; b=Hf5PnI/Stv6HVoMKqhJa2LVU1isIVofbw7CchDfGBKRmL0gRGgH3SQblxXhoUTauUJ 5wypK6NjpaPFLSUGhS+EYUgK7dybRLnsAVdZtHhvBNnrvuu/W6oJxL3Si3bSxLnBH7PK d7kcnL1wVN8sK0X8Hid/qlWiuJsO7WY+zcOH0UTQIEfLfX8NrKTLItiykP2hLUfJKO00 sBHVoGvwgbqLktIssz0nWFJznQ7vvOMmp0vCnyE35BekUbyMIvXTWTNl5HsUBF97A8K6 UzyIzCPvoOUiGyPyL5j+4sWobigH3/qLpbOjDrdvh9ixt9BDZ2nBUMQJfshGBuAFbjju 6SFg== X-Received: by 10.202.136.147 with SMTP id k141mr188419oid.38.1421916745983; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:52:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.182.2.130 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:52:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <54C05269.7050602@dancol.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: Ifu-U779J4QNH2Q1kQo_f_7PMlg X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c01::232 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:181560 Archived-At: On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Daniel Colascione wrote: > > On 01/21/2015 01:38 PM, Oleh wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This is my first attempt of modifying the C source of Emacs. > > The goal is to add a new reader syntax: > > > > #(foo bar) should translate to (short-lambda (foo bar)) > > Thanks, but I'd strongly prefer not to baking this syntax into the elisp > reader. IME, we tend not to use anonymous lambas enough to matter. This syntax makes anonymous lambdas dramatically more attractive IMHO, so I would not use current usage as an argument against it. -- René