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25.0.92; C/l mode editing takes waaaayy too long

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 22884 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, John Wiegley <johnw <at> gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#22884: 25.0.92; C/l mode editing takes waaaayy too long
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:14:53 -0800 (PST)

> Hello, Drew.
> 
> > I'm not following this thread, but Common Lisp has nested
> > block comments, and they are very well specified in the
> > spec/standard.
> 
> Thank you, thank you!  Those nested comments in Lisp were
> just what I needed.  And yes, I found a problem in my code.

Glad it helped.  In general, I think it would be good if more
Emacs Dev hackers were a bit more familiar with Common Lisp.

"Common Lisp The Language" is very readable, and it explicitly
presents the _reasons_ for many of the design decisions etc.

You can read it from front to back.  It is truly a pleasure to
dig into, and Guy Steele is a good writer.  Consider curling up
with it on one of these cold or rainy nights.  You won't regret it.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html

I still have and use the first edition.  The 2nd is longer and
includes `loop', CLOS, etc. but the meat is essentially the same.

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