From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <87sicvwckx.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87wq27yvqg.fsf@debian.uxu> <8d531e99-7260-4263-ac99-09c6871e2708@googlegroups.com> <87vbhq53lf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87a8z23p23.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87lhilx0cf.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427252123 12921 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2015 02:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 02:55:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 25 03:55:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1YabTT-0002c6-Dp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 03:55:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YabTS-0005qs-Qn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:55:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.236.60.202 with SMTP id u50mr9251338yhc.9.1427251898560; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:51:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.60.71 with SMTP id f7mr348726igr.10.1427251898532; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!z107no4654600qgd.0!news-out.google.com!db6ni62281igc.0!nntp.google.com!z20no4561441igj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87lhilx0cf.fsf@debian.uxu> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.63.242; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.63.242 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 02:51:38 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211026 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103307 Archived-At: On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 8:10:18 AM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: > > > But then, why stop with +? > > > > You could use instead: > > > > (funcall (additive-operator (ring integer)) > > (neutral-element (multiplicative-operator (ring > > integer))) 5) ; 6 > > > > or something even more general? I find Pascal's example brilliant and hilarious. In this case though, I slightly err on your (Emanuel) side. When I see the 1+, I have a stop (like um... er...) Is that a number, an expression, a constant, a comment? Oh Oh.. Functions can start with digits (Yeah this is lisp...)