From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposing "alist" macro Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8b69f75f-0c5d-df4c-6e6f-cc02d5bf4ba9@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536213029 6640 195.159.176.226 (6 Sep 2018 05:50:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 05:50:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: van@scratch.space, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 07:50:25 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnBP-0001ZW-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 07:50:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59492 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnDV-0004ol-NA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33011) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnDP-0004l9-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnDP-0001s7-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33165) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnDK-0001eD-0A; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnDJ-0005Sa-Fi; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Noam Postavsky on Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:06:25 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229331 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The proposed macro expansions do eval all the args. Do they unconditionally eval all the args once and only once in the order that they are written in the call? If so, there is no need for a macro, so you could use a function or defsubst. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)