From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: array.el Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:20:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56BA4A5F.1070908@fourthriver.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455117945 20836 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2016 15:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:25:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 16:25:36 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aTWe7-0006cC-QV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:25:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40142 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTWe7-0006JF-3t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:25:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55049) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTWdq-0006Iv-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:25:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTWdm-00073P-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49133) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTWdm-00073J-9D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:25:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTWdg-0006EM-JZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:25:08 +0100 Original-Received: from 69.157.190.121 ([69.157.190.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:25:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69.157.190.121 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:25:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.157.190.121 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dadCQLCppj+IYJ9KQxRU6Br3CP8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199695 Archived-At: > I initially wrote array.el about 30 years ago. > If you want, I can start maintaining it. I think this would be great. I haven't used array.el, but looking at it, I'm wondering how it relates/compares to table.el and org.el's table support (as well as GNU ELPA's csv-mode). Trying to consolidate those various solutions to similar/related problems would be a welcome improvement. Stefan