From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Burton Samograd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How close is elisp to CL now? Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:01:19 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355159718 18189 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2012 17:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:15:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 10 18:15:30 2012 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 1Ti6ww-0004rS-2u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:15:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46785 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ti6wj-0003ky-A8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:15:13 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: x8k3KC6E0RodHmQi2ZnN7g.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1299999999999999 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.90 (cygwin) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:T3xO1BS16EwIazmmrF6eIIasltI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:195795 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:88113 Archived-At: juliewith writes: > Not being proficient in Lisp but wanting to be, I was wondering if the > lexical scoping in 24.x has now pushed elisp closer to Common Lisp in > capabilities. If so how close? Could elisp now (potentially) do all the > "higher level" sorts of things CL does? Yes. Using the current cl-lib I have taken CL code with some minor name changs and run it directly in emacs without problems. -- Burton Samograd