From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40757 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: possible strange idea about hierarchical lists Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 09:09:06 -0500 Organization: Cienfuegos Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176258 2609 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:57:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13805 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 14:19:01 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 14:19:01 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16CLpn-0003ig-00; Fri, 07 Dec 2001 08:18:39 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 07 Dec 2001 08:18:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA14809 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:18:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 13784 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2001 14:18:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13779 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 14:18:22 -0000 Original-Received: from tantalum.northernlight.com (HELO bronze.nimbus.northernlight.com) (205.181.75.60) by gnus.org with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 14:18:22 -0000 Original-Received: from onyx.nimbus.northernlight.com (onyx.nimbus.northernlight.com [10.0.3.57]) by bronze.nimbus.northernlight.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fB7EI8u15130 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:18:08 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:55:19 +0100") Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40757 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40757 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=C3=9Fjohann) writes: > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> You are right. It's faster and easier (for implementer and user) to >> use a 2-level list. But is anyone except me interested in it? > > I think the feature is too cool to be comprehended easily. Just go > ahead and add it, and in ten years, when people have become wiser, > they will thank you for it :-) I would, if I understood Lisp well enough :( I could probably figure it out if someone gave me pointers - where to start looking, what function(s) to copy or modify... Thanks Ted