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Re: emacs with guile instead of elisp


Keith Wright <kwright@tiac.net> writes:
> > From: mike@olan.com (Michael N. Livshin)
> > 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.

Yeah, I feel the same way.