Re: use Elisp to improve your Elisp - some code issues

[Rusi]

On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 9:06:33 PM UTC+5:30, Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Emanuel Berg  writes:
> 
> > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" 
> > writes:
> >
> >> No.
> >>
> >> I said that if you went beyond those simple case,
> >> your regexp solution would break lamentably.
> >
> > This is an interface to regexps so it sure doesn't go
> > anywhere beyond what can be expressed by regexps.
> 
> I agree with Pascal & Marcin.
> 
> Why not use the "read" function to read in the code of the file.  Then
> you have everything as a tree.  You can use car and cdr to walk the tree

If something like this 
https://common-lisp.net/project/cl-match/doc/clmatch.htm
is there it sure makes life more pleasant than car/cdr.

[Disclaimer: I dont know much about common-lisp nor about whether these
things are there in elisp.
Talking from (ancient) scheme experience
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