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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: latex-table-wizard
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:22:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y51gOqfczitakrfq@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cz8j2fos.fsf@posteo.net>

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On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 09:37:23PM +0000, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Enrico Flor <enrico@eflor.net> writes:
> 
> > Thank you so much for your comments!  I implemented your many
> > suggestions wrt. the code.  I must say I didn't use to have all the
> > backquotes but then I read somewhere that you should prefer
> >
> >   `(,x ,y)
> >
> > over
> >
> >   (list x y)

[...]

> I cannot think of why, after all
> 
>   (macroexpand-all '`(,a ,b ,c)) => (list a b c)

I think it's a question of style. As you, Philip, note downthread, I
usually decide on whether I see [1] the context as "data with some
interspersed (live) values" (think "json with variable interpolation"
or as "program". Lisp itself is ambiguous about that :-)

Cheers

[1] and want to convey to my readers

-- 
t

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-17  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-16 17:17 [NonGNU ELPA] New package: latex-table-wizard Enrico Flor
2022-12-16 19:46 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-16 21:29   ` Enrico Flor
2022-12-16 21:37     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-16 21:59       ` Enrico Flor
2022-12-16 22:58         ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-16 23:36           ` Enrico Flor
2022-12-17  6:22       ` tomas [this message]
2022-12-17 10:01         ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-17 16:13         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-12-17 14:17   ` Philip Kaludercic
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-12-16 16:32 Enrico Flor
2022-12-17  3:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-17  4:46   ` Enrico Flor
2022-12-17  9:56     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-17 14:10       ` Enrico Flor
2023-05-11 21:21       ` Enrico Flor
2023-05-12  5:46         ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-12 12:30           ` Stefan Monnier
2023-05-12 15:46             ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-12 12:37           ` Enrico Flor

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