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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about eval and compile-command
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:02:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5v7rj2e.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbkfo88ij.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:14:35 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> It looks like Stefan added the 'eval' calls as a minor cleanup and not
>> as part of the change itself.  Stefan, any chance you remember why you
>> added the 'eval' calls?
>
> I added it to allow the `compile-command` to be
> (re)computed dynamically.

In retrospect, shouldn't the type be be a string or a function?  For
former for a static command, the latter for a dynamically computed one?

>
>         Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-03 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-03  9:29 Question about eval and compile-command Eshel Yaron
2023-08-03  9:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-03 15:14   ` Stefan Monnier
2023-08-03 16:23     ` Eshel Yaron
2023-08-03 17:24       ` Stefan Monnier
2023-08-03 20:02     ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2023-08-03 20:39       ` Stefan Monnier
2023-08-03 21:14       ` Andreas Schwab
2023-08-03 21:35         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-08-04  5:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-04  6:51           ` Andreas Schwab
2023-08-04  7:00             ` Philip Kaludercic

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