From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.blogging,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: i18n Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:33:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1e7a74211001281954h1295a717id942a4405dc98b25@mail.gmail.com> <87vdekbt60.fsf@everybody.org> <1e7a74211001310729s6b0c506cv41cdea9b19274fba@mail.gmail.com> <87fx5l8kat.fsf@everybody.org> <877hqxqqxz.fsf@xemacs.org> <0B0F20F17689462CA495798B348F923D@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265056445 21106 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2010 20:34:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:34:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "'Stephen J. Turnbull'" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacsweblogs@nongnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacsweblogs-bounces+geb-emacsweblogs=m.gmane.org@nongnu.org Mon Feb 01 21:34:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-emacsweblogs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nc2y6-0005Kz-SH for geb-emacsweblogs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:33:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54773 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nc2y6-000453-7x for geb-emacsweblogs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:33:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nc2y4-00044v-80 for emacsweblogs@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:33:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39681 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nc2y3-00044l-Pt for emacsweblogs@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:33:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nc2y2-00085c-LC for emacsweblogs@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:33:55 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:6725 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nc2y2-000859-5c for emacsweblogs@nongnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:33:54 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAJHJZktFpaN9/2dsb2JhbACBM9kLhEUEilo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,385,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="55093293" Original-Received: from 69-165-163-125.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.163.125]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 01 Feb 2010 15:33:52 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4F1668987; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:33:52 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <0B0F20F17689462CA495798B348F923D@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:56:07 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacsweblogs@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: emacsweblogs.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacsweblogs-bounces+geb-emacsweblogs=m.gmane.org@nongnu.org Errors-To: emacsweblogs-bounces+geb-emacsweblogs=m.gmane.org@nongnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.blogging:91 gmane.emacs.devel:120792 Archived-At: >> It would be easy to change the reader such that _"foo" is >> automatically read as (_ "foo"), just like we do for 'foo -> (quote foo). > Oh sure. And break existing code. I grepped for this sequence before sending the previous email. So while theoretically there may be code out there that would be affected, I don't think such code really exists in practice. > Lisp (in general) has always read + eval'd a sexp such as (list > 'foo_"bar") to produce the list (foo_ "bar"). You would have it return > (foo (_ "bar"))? Actually, I'd probably have it return the same as now because this _ appears in the "middle" (well, the end) of a symbol. This said, I do not think there is this kind of code in the wild either, Stefan