From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Kenichi Handa <handa@ni.aist.go.jp>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:40:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7ih8qpvm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87odakqqtn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:17:40 +0900")
>> > > How Pythonic!
>> > No need for insults Stephen!
>> You're welcome to take insult if you like, but I don't know a higher
>> compliment in language design
> Please tell me you're joking...
While I don't consider Python as the best design by far (the lack of
type system rules it out right away), Elisp's dynamic scoping mixed with
buffer-local and frame-local and terminal-local variables is pretty
horrendous,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-14 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-13 2:36 (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR) Kenichi Handa
2008-02-13 2:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-13 3:48 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-13 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-13 18:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-13 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-13 22:49 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 1:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-14 1:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 1:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-02-14 1:49 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 18:10 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 22:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-15 1:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-15 1:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-15 7:27 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-15 12:58 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 23:37 ` Leo
2008-02-15 12:59 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 4:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-14 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-15 1:39 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-15 4:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-15 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-15 8:53 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-16 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-16 5:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-16 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-17 20:29 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-18 1:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 4:00 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-18 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-13 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-13 23:13 ` Miles Bader
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-15 7:11 Kenichi Handa
2008-04-15 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-17 1:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-07 19:31 Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-14 6:54 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-14 12:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-14 12:50 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-15 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-15 6:11 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
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