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Re: emacs roadmap
From: |
Tony Day |
Subject: |
Re: emacs roadmap |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:36:07 +1100 |
> Lexical closures are supported natively since Emacs-24. Namespaces are
> another beast altogether, and there's not much on the horizon there either.
Ok, so now I understand defvar, lol. Not much use of lexical scoping in the
wild - this was all I could find: http://github.com/nicferrier/elnode
>> - first-class print for functions?
>
> Not sure what that would be.
>
ELISP> (defun foo()
'(1 2 3))
ELISP> (as-string 'foo)
(defun foo()
'(1 2 3))
Would be very useful for debugging.
>> More generally, when can we get turtles all the way down and enjoy the
>> return of the symbolic machine?
>
> My experience with Lisp machines has been fairly limited, so I'm not
> sure what would be the thing that is most sorely missing.
Tounge was slightly in cheek. What annoys me 100 times a day is having to
switch away from the emacs environment to a browser and I was imagining that
the technical difficulties involved in getting a decent browser rendering might
coincide with the point at which C is needed to get closer to the *nix machine
metal. I'm half hoping that things like guile 2 pushing lisp further down the
chain might one day lead to an emacs os (a personal preference not a
recommendation).