From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: general-purpose.el - a general-forms-resource-utility Date: 07 Jul 2006 03:55:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44ACE1B5.10909@easy-emacs.de> <44ADFFEF.6050204@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152258968 15794 80.91.229.2 (7 Jul 2006 07:56:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 07:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 07 09:56:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FylBq-0003mo-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:55:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FylBq-0002OZ-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FylBL-0002Mj-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:55:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FylBI-0002L7-NQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FylBI-0002Kt-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:55:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [67.59.132.6] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FylBf-0004VA-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:55:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FylBG-0007Ei-O2; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:55:18 -0400 Original-To: Andreas Roehler In-Reply-To: <44ADFFEF.6050204@easy-emacs.de> Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56701 Archived-At: Andreas Roehler writes: > Why not think about a way to relate and reflect these different > - already exiting and delivered - definitions? probably this has already been thought about. see, for example: http://www.norvig.com/paip/unify.lisp http://www.norvig.com/paip/README.html a related idea is to unify byte-code -- that would be cool. thi