Re: Using funcall on inline functions

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

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

>> Hmm, interesting. I guess I would feel a little weird about having to
>> change all callers specifically for this -- I can see myself six months
>> from now having no memory of doing this, and causing bugs for myself.
>
> Yeah, `gv-ref` is not super popular, indeed.  Can't blame you.

I actually like the mechanism and what it lets you do, but would prefer
it to be buried deep someplace where I can't see it.

>>> [ BTW, your `ebdb-add-to-list` has a bug in that it will evaluate its
>>> second argument before its first. ]
>> inline-letevals! But, for my information, isn't the bug that ELEMENT is
>> evaluated twice?
>
> Oh, yeah, that as well.
>
>> Why does the order of evaluation matter?
>
> Because in ELisp order of evaluation of function arguments is specified
> to be "left to right" and code can (and does every once in a while) rely
> on it.  It's not super-frequent, but not really rare either (e.g. it's
> quite common for things like `delete-region`).

Not something that ever occurred to me. This has been an educational
thread, even though the result will probably be me deciding this inline
isn't necessary at all.

Thanks,
Eric