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Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote
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Sam Steingold |
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Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote |
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Wed, 22 May 2019 12:14:44 -0400 |
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> * Paul W. Rankin <address@hidden> [2019-05-20 13:03:21 +1000]:
>
> For as long as I've used Emacs Lisp, I've found the backquote[1] to be
> ugly and unreadable, to the extent that I've gone to lengths to avoid
> using it.
Backquote is a relatively advanced lisp feature, mostly used in macros
(which comprise a whole separate advanced domain).
If you find backquote "ugly and unreadable", it is possible that you
might not be quite advanced in your lisp skills yet.
Do you really _need_ backquote? Do you write complex macros all the time?
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- Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote, (continued)
- Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/05/20
- Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote, Paul W. Rankin, 2019/05/20
- Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2019/05/20
- Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote, Paul W. Rankin, 2019/05/20
- Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2019/05/20
- Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/05/20
- Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote, Richard Stallman, 2019/05/20
- Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote, Paul W. Rankin, 2019/05/20
- Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote,
Sam Steingold <=