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From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add XDG utility library
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:14:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201121413.GA997@holos.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkRwWzz_XzTvUXaqU3dmCHL+H=QG5EcR+-sQ3thFYrVzeA@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/02/17 at 11:19am, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu> schrieb am Mi., 1. Feb. 2017 um 01:28 Uhr:
> 
> >
> > +(defmacro xdg--dir-home (environ default-path)
> > +  (declare (debug (stringp stringp)))
> > +  (let ((env (make-symbol "env")))
> > +    `(let ((,env (getenv ,environ)))
> > +       (if (or (null ,env) (not (file-name-absolute-p ,env)))
> > +           (expand-file-name ,default-path)
> > +         ,env))))
> >
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why is this a macro and not a normal
> function?

Because its only use is the write the body of a few functions.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-01 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-01  0:26 [PATCH] Add XDG utility library Mark Oteiza
2017-02-01 11:19 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-02-01 12:14   ` Mark Oteiza [this message]
2017-02-01 11:24 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-02-01 12:17   ` Mark Oteiza
2017-02-01 15:01 ` Ted Zlatanov

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