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Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote


From: Paul W. Rankin
Subject: Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 12:39:26 +1000
User-agent: mu4e 1.2.0; emacs 26.2


On Tue, May 21 2019, Noam Postavsky wrote:
The standard is about the read syntax; at least, Common Lisp
explicitly says it is implementation dependent what the result of
(read "`(foo ,bar)") is.
For Emacs, that currently gives (\` (foo (\, bar))), I think it would be nicer if it gave (quasiquote (foo (unqote bar)). From what I can
tell this has been standard in Scheme since r3rs (1986).

Hehe I like "quasiquote".



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