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Re: plists, alists, and hashtables
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: plists, alists, and hashtables |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:21:08 -0400 |
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On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 12:35:01 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
>> Let me rephrase my question: is the work of reader macros already
>> planned for the Emacs core as an incremental feature?
SM> Check the emacs-devel mailing-list. It was discussed not very long ago
SM> (a year or two, maybe?).
I think you maybe mean this?
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00618.html
Started with "[PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function
literal"
I don't see an actual decision regarding reader macros, just a lot of
discussion. Should I start a new thread? Or did you mean a different thread?
On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 12:32:28 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
SM> I think what you're getting at is that (core) Lisp is somewhat
SM> "untyped", so alists/plists can't be distinguished from other data built
SM> using cons-cells: only the user knows whether that cons cells is meant
SM> to be an alist or a plist or something else.
Yes, thank you for stating it clearly. Pascal summarized why trying to
hack around that is not a great idea.
Ted
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, (continued)
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/08/07
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Stefan Monnier, 2015/08/07
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- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/08/07
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Stefan Monnier, 2015/08/08
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Rusi, 2015/08/08
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/08/06
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Ted Zlatanov, 2015/08/06
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/08/07
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Ted Zlatanov, 2015/08/07
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/08/07
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables,
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- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Stefan Monnier, 2015/08/07
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- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/08/07
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Stefan Monnier, 2015/08/07