From: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:54:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2egqmjoyw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 54C0C514.8020606@dancol.org
On 2015-01-22 17:38 +0800, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> With idiomatic elisp, it's
>
> (mapcar (lambda (x) (* x x)) '(1 2 3))
>
> Both alternatives above are more esoteric than the lambda form and are
> approximately as wrong. Note how the "lambda" is a prominent "I AM A
> FUNCTION" signal. I don't like the shorter forms, won't use them in my
> code, and wouldn't rely on calling packages. I don't want to change the
> Emacs reader to support this syntax.
I must agree with this point. Code is written often once and read many
many times for many decades in emacs. Clojure's syntax is noisier than
most lisps we love.
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-23 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-21 21:38 [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Oleh
2015-01-21 22:28 ` samer
2015-01-21 22:37 ` Oleh
2015-01-21 23:36 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-21 23:46 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 0:54 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 0:57 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 1:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 2:21 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-22 13:35 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2015-01-22 7:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 8:04 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 8:16 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22 9:19 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 8:52 ` René Kyllingstad
2015-01-22 9:17 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:27 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:45 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:52 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 10:05 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 16:57 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-01-23 0:54 ` Leo Liu [this message]
2015-01-24 23:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-22 10:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 10:20 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 14:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:31 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 1:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 10:22 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 10:32 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 10:40 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 10:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-01-22 11:03 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 14:35 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:44 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 1:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:48 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-23 1:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 11:03 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-22 9:35 ` René Kyllingstad
2015-01-22 9:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:53 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 10:22 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 12:37 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 12:46 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-22 12:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 13:07 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 22:10 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-23 9:28 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-24 1:09 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-24 8:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2015-01-23 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-22 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 17:22 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 20:34 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 23:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 23:38 ` Reader macros (Was: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal) Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 9:33 ` Reader macros David Kastrup
2015-01-23 11:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 12:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-23 10:34 ` [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 10:47 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 11:53 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 12:02 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 11:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 13:18 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 22:25 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 7:44 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 23:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 18:30 ` Artur Malabarba
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2015-01-26 22:22 Barry OReilly
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