Ask on #clojure about this. Someone (hiredman, I think?) has a macro
that rewrites code using some funky unicode characters. I can't find
it at the moment, but it might be what you're looking for.
On Nov 16, 9:51 am, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to follow up, I'm now using the following to pretty up Clojure code
> in Emacs
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> ;; symbols for some overlong function names
> (eval-after-load 'clojure-mode
> '(font-lock-add-keywords
> 'clojure-mode
> (mapcar
> (lambda (pair)
> `(,(car pair)
> (0 (progn (compose-region
> (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
> ,(cadr pair))
> nil))))
> `(("\\<fn\\>" ,(make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 107))
> ("\\<comp\\>" ?∘)
> ("\\<partial\\>" ?þ)
> ("\\<complement\\>" ?¬)))))
> #+end_src
>
> I think the results look quite nice, a small example is attached
>
> abbrev-function-names.png
> 5KViewDownload
>
>
>
> Best -- Eric
>
> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi Paul,
>
> > Thanks for sharing this. It seems like the best compromise between the
> > desire to keep my code brief (at least to my eyes) without wanting to
> > introduce my own custom function names for global functions.
>
> > If you don't mind I'd like to add this to my fork of the Emacs Starter
> > Kit (will credit you as author).
>
> > Best -- Eric
>
> > Paul Hobbs <paul.mcdill.ho...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Well, for those who use emacs, you could always make it *look* like it was
> >> pretty... For example:
>
> >> (eval-after-load 'clojure-mode
> >> '(font-lock-add-keywords
> >> 'clojure-mode `(("\\<fn\\>"
> >> (0 (progn (compose-region
> >> (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
> >> ,(make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 107)) ;; a lambda
> >> nil)))
> >> ("\\<comp\\>"
> >> (0
> >> (progn (compose-region
> >> (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
> >> "∘ ")
> >> nil)))
> >> ("\\<partial\\>"
> >> (0
> >> (progn (compose-region
> >> (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
> >> "𝒫 ")))))))
>
> >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Cyrus Harmon <cyrushar...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
>
> >>> I think the minimal character count for composition and partial functions
> >>> in haskell are some of the reasons that haskell code is so impenetrable to
> >>> non-haskell hackers. Feel free to rig up crazy unicode characters to any
> >>> identifier you want in your own code, just don't ask me to read or debug
> >>> any
> >>> of it.
>
> >>> On Nov 15, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Paul Hobbs wrote:
>
> >>> Coming from Haskell, where composition and partial functions are cheap and
> >>> free in terms of character count, it is actually pretty discouraging to
> >>> have
> >>> to spell it out in Clojure for the same effect. Some of the cases where
> >>> you
> >>> "should" be using multiple expressions in Clojure would be perfectly clear
> >>> in Haskell as one expression...
>
> >>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Sean Corfield
> >>> <seancorfi...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >>>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Alan <a...@malloys.org> wrote:
> >>>> > The one that bugs me is complement - such a long name for a commonly-
> >>>> > useful function. I often wind up defining ! as an alias for
> >>>> > complement, but maybe others will think that is poor style.
>
> >>>> Possibly because bang functions indicate "Here be dragons" in terms of
> >>>> mutating state? e.g., set!
>
> >>>> Are you really using complement a lot? I guess I would define an alias
> >>>> for the complement-ed function or use not in expressions...
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