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Re: plists, alists, and hashtables
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: plists, alists, and hashtables |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Aug 2015 05:52:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 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"
>
> Yes.
>
>> 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?
>
> There was no real decision, I just pointed out that support in the
> tooling makes CL-style reader macros rather undesirable: they're
> too powerful.
In the context of emacs, one could have a declarative definition of
reader macros; basically just an attributed grammar. Then it can be
used to define the reader macro parser, the formatter, and the
structured editing function. Just like in the synthesizer editor.
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- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Stefan Monnier, 2015/08/08
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- 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, Ted Zlatanov, 2015/08/07
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