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Re: emacs with guile instead of elisp

> From: mike@olan.com (Michael N. Livshin)
> [ discussion on how to be able to have more smobs snipped ]
> 
> I just stumbled upon a Guile feature called "structures".
> 
> It's a way to have any number of distinct types, without dynamic ID
> allocation etc.  It appears to be cool, although I must admit I find
> this stuff (vtables? vtable vtables? huh?)  utterly confusing...
> 
There's where we differ.  I won't call anything "cool" if it is
utterly confusing.  The last time I looked, it seemed to be a great
pile of nearly random code accompanied by documentation that was all
jargon.  I did not see what it was for, and I wished it would go away.

-- 
     --Keith

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