From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: <christian.lynbech@tieto.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guile and emacs and elisp, oh my!
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:28:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3aasu5rxz.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ytqpfx2msc73.fsf@tieto.com> (christian lynbech's message of "Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:19:44 +0200")
On Fri 23 Apr 2010 12:19, <christian.lynbech@tieto.com> writes:
>>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>
> Andy> I think it's good because Scheme or Elisp lists and booleans can be
> Andy> passed back and forth, and traversing those lists or testing values for
> Andy> truth Just Works(tm). Of course, there are a couple of pitfalls; these
> Andy> are noted in the docs there.
>
> I may have missed it in the doc, but what will
>
> (car nil)
>
> return?
In Scheme, this is an error. In Elisp, it returns nil. They are actually
two different operators, that just happen to share the same name.
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-23 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-14 20:18 guile and emacs and elisp, oh my! Andy Wingo
2010-04-15 8:38 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-15 8:53 ` joakim
2010-04-15 17:34 ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-15 23:54 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-04-16 6:48 ` joakim
2010-04-16 17:05 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-04-16 17:16 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-04-16 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-20 22:36 ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-21 7:37 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-21 9:27 ` David Engster
2010-04-21 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2010-04-21 11:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-21 11:58 ` David Engster
2010-04-21 12:22 ` David Kastrup
2010-04-21 16:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-04-22 9:35 ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-22 15:14 ` Karl Fogel
2010-04-25 19:36 ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-23 2:00 ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-23 8:28 ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-23 9:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-04-23 10:19 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-23 11:28 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2010-04-23 11:31 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-23 13:10 ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-23 22:43 ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-24 11:05 ` Andy Wingo
2010-04-25 0:02 ` Thomas Lord
2010-04-25 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-25 17:11 ` Andy Wingo
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