From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Corallo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs object type hierarchy Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83y1ftmje7.fsf@gnu.org> <8334y0mdzd.fsf@gnu.org> <8634trv46k.fsf@gnu.org> <86le7hr2i0.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30162"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 19 08:54:11 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rbyTb-0007c4-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:54:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rbySl-0007mr-LO; Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:53:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rbySj-0007mb-Ae for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:53:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rbySh-00045r-2f; Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:53:16 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To: From; bh=Jy+LkeCgCjf9cwhseyEXkKgw2mZIdcEsHKsD16BERn4=; b=DsMZEB3FsZRn+XUBzAEV HWHsRtkM8o5a0oSPLnqXbVW48ONoFWaaFhp9A07fGDUHcYOP8Yz8c/nUU4oMQJYgLpBT30TUm9edG uEQVn08SPVF4qWGG+uaRSbO3gCslB4Tpa+7utzq/7WiK0mXnGqHn6wYnb/gg68BvC3RAruoKliD+0 /4wdmc0e3OtgQKuAqi4ctK9ikjvkguqDfITFxQTbUF4V+Fm8ZDjCLrH2zC0zTsWxNwPg8JUNqhQGZ R7Gym6JmXdrKLpGxONsR+T1Rk4GjFZU0qUs5PfAHzGxiiWp08Cpjy2Owp14w9+M+gfFn8DJKfWwDj S9+zbceS1PYANQ==; Original-Received: from acorallo by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rbySQ-0005He-DL; Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86le7hr2i0.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 18 Feb 2024 21:33:43 +0200") X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:316340 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Andrea Corallo >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com >> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:23:14 -0500 >> >> >> Maybe a simple table would be just a better option for text? >> > >> > Could be, but how do you show a DAG in a table? >> >> I think is not possible to show the DAG in a table but we could describe >> it with a table like: >> >> | type | derived types | >> |---------+---------------------------------| >> | integer | bignum fixnum | >> | symbol | keyword boolean symbol-with-pos | >> ... >> >> Maybe is more readable? I'm not sure ATM what's the best option. > > I think such a table should be fin on TTY frames. You can use the > Texinfo @image machinery, which allows text replacements for when > images cannot be displayed. Agreed, the table is probably the best option we have. Okay I'll work in this direction. Thanks Andrea