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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: thunk.el: Document that thunk-force == funcall?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:38:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8jv3mue.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874klnnc6t.fsf@logand.com

Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> writes:

> a test predicate usually takes at least one argument

I do not speak about tests involving an argument but rather things like
`something-is-the-case-but-it-takes-long-to-find-out-p' that are often
comfortably defined as a thunk if the result may matter at several
places.

Michael.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-17 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-17 15:17 thunk.el: Document that thunk-force == funcall? Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 17:08 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 17:38   ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2020-11-17 18:09     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 21:07       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 22:42         ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 23:52           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18  8:01             ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 14:04               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 22:19                 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 22:49                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 23:13                     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 23:40                       ` Stephen Leake
2020-11-18  9:04   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-11-18 22:21     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 17:32 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-18 23:05   ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 23:25     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-19 11:50       ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-19 18:14         ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-19 17:18     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-19  9:49   ` Nicolas Petton
2020-11-17 21:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-25 14:16   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-27 17:22     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-17  4:37       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-18  2:58         ` Adam Porter

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