Re: A combination of defmacro, functionp, and quoted lambdas yields different results on consecutive evaluations

["Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>]

On 2018-02-26 11:31, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Why is that relevant here, given that I'm *not* compiling the file?

> If the semantics depends on interpretation-vs-compilation, then you're
> on your own.  Macroexpansion happens "some time" between the moment the
> machine leans that a given sexp is to be interpreted as code and the
> moment that code is executed.

Stefan, I think we're miscommunicating.  Sorry if I'm being unclear or unhelpful.  I'm trying to understand what the proper fix is to a bug that was reported by a Flycheck user.  You're telling me that I "get what I deserved" and that I'm "on my own" :/

My user's problem is the following: Flycheck defines a macro that lets you define a new checker.  One of our users wrote something like this:

(with-eval-after-load 'flycheck
  (flycheck-define-checker
    …))

This doesn't work.  I claim that it should, or that it should be documented to not work.  Do you disagree?

>> (FWIW, I do indeed expect with-eval-after-load to protect its argument from
>> compilation, yes.
> Why?

Because of the documentation says that this macro arranges for evaluation to be delayed.  It's OK if the contents are compiled, but only if that doesn't change the semantics.  Otherwise, either the docs of with-eval-after-load are wrong, or with-eval-after-load has a bug, AFAICT.

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious.
Clément.