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Re: general-purpose.el - a general-forms-resource-utility
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Andreas Roehler |
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Re: general-purpose.el - a general-forms-resource-utility |
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Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:50:25 +0200 |
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Thien-Thi Nguyen schrieb:
Andreas Roehler <address@hidden> writes:
Why not think about a way to relate and reflect these different
- already exiting and delivered - definitions?
probably this has already been thought about. see, for example:
http://www.norvig.com/paip/unify.lisp
http://www.norvig.com/paip/README.html
a related idea is to unify byte-code -- that would be cool.
thi
Thanks a lot! That's real interesting stuff there.
Let me say nonetheless that `unification' might be a
result--and certainly will be in some cases--but not
the primary goal of the project - that's wider, a more
general one.
If we agree that scattered general-purpose-functions
exist, one of the interesting questions is: Why?
What is the situation of the developer while writing
the fourth or fifth string-strip function?
Might be that
- none of the existing are suitable
- he ignores the other one.
Both seems possible, also in combination.
As big as the sources are I doubt that someone will
claim to know everything.
Also the question of suitability is no easy one -
following the discussion around string-strip these days
I don't see a way of automatized unification.
In any case it would help a lot if we could - while
writing - give some keyword, for example `correct user
input' and get a list of possible forms.
(That's the case already with `apropos' somehow, that's
not a new idea as such, so I will also examine
`apropos' in this context.)
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Andreas Roehler
Re: general-purpose.el - a general-forms-resource-utility, Richard Stallman, 2006/07/07