Re: Elisp development news

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "Thien-Thi" == Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

    Thien-Thi>    From: Neil Jerram <address@hidden> Date: 12
    Thien-Thi> Nov 2001 23:27:39 +0000

    Jim>      - Programmers writing new applications using Guile
    Jim> should be happy, too. There is almost no extant Emacs
    Jim> Lisp code which doesn't use buffers and other
    Jim> Emacs-specific data types; any Emacs Lisp code they
    Jim> want to use in their application will need porting
    Jim> anyway.

    Neil>    Seriously, no issue here, although I'm not sure I
    Neil> understand the thrust of the last point.

    Thien-Thi> because the trickiness manifests in interface design
    Thien-Thi> (as you point out earlier in the post), the fact that
    Thien-Thi> emacs is very tied to its data types narrows the
    Thien-Thi> problem down to w/in shouting distance of some
    Thien-Thi> potentially small portability library.  this makes
    Thien-Thi> guile programmers happy.

Sorry...  Thanks for trying, but I'm afraid I still don't really get
it.  Could you illustrate perhaps with a specific example?

        Neil