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Re: plists, alists, and hashtables
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: plists, alists, and hashtables |
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Fri, 07 Aug 2015 07:21:17 -0400 |
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On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:53:05 +0200 "Pascal J. Bourguignon"
<pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
PJB> And this is why we feel the lack of reader macros, since that would
PJB> clearly allow you to write a new syntax in a user library, instead of
PJB> having to beg it from the emacs lisp language itself.
>>
>> Is this work already planned?
PJB> Well, once emacs got to git, I cloned it to do that, add CL packages and
PJB> reader macros to emacs. But unfortunately I've not worked on it since.
PJB> But I'm planing a take over :-) I'm writing a C parser in CL, so that I
PJB> may read the C sources of CL, and then translate them into maintainable
PJB> CL. Then I will be able to compile a CL GNU emacs core, that would be
PJB> 100% bug-for-bug compatible with GNU emacs, and on which you could run
PJB> all the .el (and even .elc) you'd want.
PJB> But since the core would be written in CL, I could now provide features
PJB> found in CL and in CL implementations, such as FFI, threads, packages,
PJB> readtables, etc, by merely providing access to the underlying CL API.
Let me rephrase my question: is the work of reader macros already
planned for the Emacs core as an incremental feature? I'm not saying
your project is not valuable, but it seems a bit far in the future.
Ted
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, (continued)
- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Stefan Monnier, 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, Stefan Monnier, 2015/08/07
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- Re: plists, alists, and hashtables, Ted Zlatanov, 2015/08/07
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