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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
Cc: "Po Lu" <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
	"João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 78fc49407b8 1/3: Improve filling of ChangeLog entries
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:32:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZbpoA6PQrafYtiqw@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf6fe666-55d2-4689-990c-d7d1e0c32dfe@gutov.dev>

Hello, Dmitry.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 17:15:41 +0200, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 31/01/2024 16:01, Po Lu wrote:
> > See any file in CC Mode,

> No shortage of maintainers, you say?

None.

> > or GCC's reload.cc, which features this massive conditional dwarfing
> > any of ours:

> Was there a way to write it more succinctly, using some higher-level 
> constructs? That is the subject.

I think the discussion is over the advantages and disadvantages of
replacing obscure concise code with its equivalent in plain Lisp.

After several days of struggling with named-let, cl-labels, and friends,
I vote for the plain Lisp, even if it does need more lines to express.
It is simply less work.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-31 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <170643232559.30479.16631610453249222615@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20240128085846.187A2C1DAE4@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2024-01-28 13:22   ` master 78fc49407b8 1/3: Improve filling of ChangeLog entries Dmitry Gutov
2024-01-28 13:37     ` Po Lu
2024-01-30 22:07     ` João Távora
2024-01-31  6:43       ` Po Lu
2024-01-31 10:28         ` João Távora
2024-01-31 11:19           ` Po Lu
2024-01-31 13:22             ` João Távora
2024-01-31 14:01               ` Po Lu
2024-01-31 14:30                 ` João Távora
2024-01-31 15:15                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-01-31 15:32                   ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2024-01-31 16:46                     ` João Távora
2024-01-31 18:29                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-01-31 17:05                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-01-31 18:45                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-01-31 20:39                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-01-29 20:13   ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-30  1:26     ` Po Lu

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