From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: String interpolation Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:41:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <51825111-ace4-f750-4077-026a3b648d27@gmail.com> <8737hwnc52.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8c117f5c-209a-97d8-79ce-a78f707f0545@gmail.com> <76c9c475-0180-aa49-3d4a-006d4e3f943c@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481571736 27386 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2016 19:42:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:42:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: clement.pit@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 12 20:42:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cGWUE-0006Bm-2K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:42:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33334 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGWUI-0007i2-04 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34543) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGWUC-0007ec-6R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:42:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGWU8-0003NS-MC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:42:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33824) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGWTr-0003ED-8Q; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:41:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cGWTq-00073f-M0; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:41:46 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:42:57 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210368 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.