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Of course CL is more advanced than Emacs Lisp, it's a very interesting platform! I have grown tired of some of its aspects though, like those endless lists of p
by ealhad 8y ago
Of course CL is more advanced than Emacs Lisp, it's a very interesting platform! I have grown tired of some of its aspects though, like those endless lists of possible keyword arguments.
But this is just me nitpicking about elegance.
- lispm 8y agoRichard Stallman doesn't like that either. There is no support from him for a CL version. There never was. It's nothing the core developers of GNU Emacs are interested in. But if we look around - most alternatives have their variants of keyword alternative mechanisms. Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/lambda.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/lambda.html Guile: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Coding-With-Keywords.html https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Coding-W... Chicken Scheme: https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Extensions%20to%20the%20standard#extended-dsssl-style-lambda-lists https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Extensions%20to%20the%20stand...