Re: Guile in Emacs

[Christian Lynbech]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:

>> Wouldn't it be about as good (and probably less work), to give up on the
>> guile idea and evolve emacs lisp (with Miles's lexical-bind changes, and
>> (one hopes) multithreading, and maybe other things)?

Thomas> I dunno.  Maybe.  I'd guess that, no, that's not a 
Thomas> good strategy.   Four reasons come quickly to mind: ...

Wouldn't a reasonable alternative to using a scheme implementation be to
use a Common Lisp ditto? And wouldn't that be a much closer fit
semantically to the current Emacs Lisp dialect?

I kind of hear you suggesting ditching all of the existing Emacs Lisp in
favour of starting over from scratch with scheme. 

While it will be easy to list examples of existing libraries few will
miss, emacs killer features such as gnus or org-mode still represent
significant investments that are not easily reproduced from scratch.


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