From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: clement.pit@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: String interpolation
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:41:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1cGWTq-00073f-M0@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y3zme28e.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:42:57 +0100)
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> > Is there a reason why people are writing (funcall '+ 3.42423 4)
> > rather than (+ 3.42423 4)?
> Yes. It's a long form that everybody knows the meaning of, and that
> looks awkward when you put it into a format string.
Some forms of code look good with short forms and bad with long ones.
Looking at them with long forms makes them look bad, but they might
be useful anyway.
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2016-12-08 1:13 RFC: String interpolation Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 8:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-08 8:38 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-08 9:05 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-08 18:25 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 9:02 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-08 18:22 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 14:43 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-08 18:37 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-09 8:57 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-08 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-08 18:21 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 20:38 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<E1cF5SK-0000HO-EL@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-12-08 22:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-08 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-08 19:31 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-10 16:01 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-09 19:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-09 22:45 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 2:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-11 18:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-11 18:56 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 19:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-11 17:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-11 17:53 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-10 14:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-10 14:25 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-10 15:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-10 15:49 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-10 16:01 ` Yuri Khan
2016-12-10 17:58 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-11 19:31 ` Yuri Khan
2016-12-11 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-11 9:35 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-11 16:29 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 18:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 19:41 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-12-11 18:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-11 21:05 ` Helmut Eller
2016-12-11 21:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 9:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 14:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 15:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 17:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 17:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 17:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 13:40 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-12 14:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 14:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-12 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 17:46 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-12 18:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 19:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-12 20:41 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-12 23:40 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-13 17:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-13 18:05 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-13 23:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 0:07 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-14 0:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-14 0:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 0:17 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-14 0:26 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-14 1:48 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-14 2:48 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-14 3:33 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-14 3:52 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-14 13:52 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2016-12-14 13:57 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2016-12-14 0:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-14 0:21 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-14 14:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 17:00 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-12 19:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-12 21:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-13 17:41 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-13 17:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 17:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-13 1:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-12 16:39 ` Helmut Eller
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