Re: GSoC: Emacs Lisp support for GNU Guile

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

Hi Neil :)

Though I was not the person to whom the question was addressed, a
comment :)

On Tue 31 Mar 2009 15:23, Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> If you followed this kind of approach, note that it would also need
> work - in addition to the Elisp/VM translation - to implement whatever
> Emacs primitives the Elisp code relies on.  That would make the
> project as a whole less pure-language-translation, but (in my view)
> more real and useful.

I keep thinking that it should be possible to write some kind of C shim
so that Guile could implement the Emacs C "API". That way we keep the
existing C code working, we keep the fine-tuned implementations and
semantics, and we can move on from "re-implementing" to "implementing"
-- e.g. adding to Emacs instead of just reproducing it. 

Happy hacking,

Andy
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