Lisp: question of Mirko.Vukovic

  • pascal_j_bourguignon / 200 / Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:46:00 GMT / Comments (0)
  • Mirko.Vukovic writes:

    No, no, no.
    The only reason why I am programming in fortran and lisp in UPPERCASE is because I yearn for the good old days. But seriously, I like the idea very much, except, that the one thing I like more are, ahem, portability. Would this fly across platforms and IDE's?
    Of course. What matters is not what is in the file, or what you type,but what is displayed.

    When I type (SIGMA '(1 2 3 4)) in my lisp buffers in emacs, it displays as (=CE=A3 '(1 2 3 4)), as part of font-locking, and I'm happy,=20 but it saves to files as (SIGMA '(1 2 3 4)) and my co-workers are happy,=20 and my lazy friend can type Alt-S-s, bound to (lambda () (interactive)=20 (insert "SIGMA")) and be happy too.=20=20

    It more or less defeats the purpose of Unicode,=20 but that maintains backward compatibility.
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