Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

"Paul W. Rankin" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, May 20 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure this would really help much with comprehension --
>> especially the (splice b) thing.  That looks like a function call, but
>> modifies the structure of list of the parent sexp, which is quite
>> magical indeed.
>
> All Emacs Lisp forms look like function calls.
>
>> ,@b at least tells the reader "there may be something here that's odd",
>> which I think may help comprehension. 
>
> Are you suggesting that ,@b is easier to comprehend than (splice b)? I think
> that is a hard case to make. Try to put yourself in the mindset of someone 
> just
> learning Emacs Lisp.

I think this is a subjective matter, so the question is, as you say in
your other message, whether aliases should be added for those that
prefer the latter form; not which form each person finds most readable.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil