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27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for Emacs Lisp.

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Message #65 received at 44554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>,
 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 44554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#44554: 27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for
 Emacs Lisp.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:44:01 -0800 (PST)

> > If we had reader macros, and more generally a
> > user-configurable reader, like Common Lisp, then
> > maybe (?) users could adapt (e.g. disable or
> > whatever) such new constructs programmatically,
> > with Lisp.
> 
> I don't know if there is such a feature as transcompiling in Common
> Lisp
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-
> source_compiler__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!LRZ90JJlz_AJMQw1M9NIPUgK3V76G9TDlhLoGz
> KzsknMnjUYOaJNZ1i8rwnHKDDn$
> but it should be possible to create a transpiler package that could
> help to load Emacs Lisp files with newer syntax in older Emacs versions.

Interesting; thanks.

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