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Re: handling parenthesis and quotes
From: |
Harald Hanche-Olsen |
Subject: |
Re: handling parenthesis and quotes |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:02:28 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix) |
+ Adam <nospam@example.com>:
| A related newbie question might be, is this the
| usual approach for 'incremental programming' by
| Lisp users ? That is; write a function,
| then append that function to a file of work
| with append-to-file ?
I don't know what most people do. Incremental programming is more
about ways to build a program than about particular editing habits, I
think.
It is all about building your application bit by bit, testing as you
go, and basing your work on what went before - and occassionally going
back and redoing things when you discover that design mistakes become
a hindrance to further work. How people save and organize their work
is probably highly individual, but appending new functions willy-nilly
to a file seems too disorganized for my taste. Rather, I work on the
program files themselves, trying to keep related functions
together. And whenever I have written a new function or rewritten an
old one, I evaluate the defun directly from the buffer (using C-M-x).
Then I use the interaction buffer mainly to test my work.
The same method works for Common Lisp using slime. And since slime
has facilities for making this style of work easy, I suspect something
like it is a popular method. 8-)
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
- handling parenthesis and quotes, Adam, 2007/01/23
- Re: handling parenthesis and quotes, Giorgos Keramidas, 2007/01/23
- Re: handling parenthesis and quotes, Adam, 2007/01/23
- Re: handling parenthesis and quotes, Harald Hanche-Olsen, 2007/01/24
- Re: handling parenthesis and quotes, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/01/24
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- Re: handling parenthesis and quotes, Harald Hanche-Olsen, 2007/01/24
- Re: handling parenthesis and quotes, Adam, 2007/01/24
- Re: handling parenthesis and quotes,
Harald Hanche-Olsen <=
- Re: handling parenthesis and quotes, Adam, 2007/01/25
- Re: handling parenthesis and quotes, Tim X, 2007/01/26