Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote

[Paul W. Rankin]

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.

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