Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I have followed Sacha for a long while, love her frequent Emacs updates. I am a rabid Common Lisp enthusiast, and I bought the Mastering Emacs book last year, I just need to pull the trigger and try doing a project in Emacs Lisp.


Common lisp -> elisp is an incredibly frustration transition. Get ready to really think in terms of dynamic scoping.

I did it the other way, and going back to elisp is /hard/.


I thought lexical scoping is standard now?


No: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Va...

In practice, everyone writing new projects uses it, but when you choose to interact with existing code...




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: