Re: Defining functions on the fly

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 17.06.2015 um 00:23 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> > Currently Emacs provides some scheme to fontify source code and some basic
> > moves: linewise, symbol, word, paragraph, sexp.
> > There is no idea of statement, block/loop or expression and a poor
> > top-level --beginning/end-of-defun.
> Since we don't need to define functions dynamically for "linewise,
> symbol, word, paragraph, sexp",

These are very basic things based on character-syntax tables.
Expression is limited that way - see the difficulties around 
triple-quoted-string.

> I don't see how "statement, block/loop
> or expression and a poor top-level --beginning/end-of-defun" would
> require dynamic definition of functions.

Because these functions depend on grammar of the goal-language.


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