From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, tsdh@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [elpa] externals/auctex cb0a1e6be1 72/77: Improve function calls to retrieve key=vals in style hooks
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1oS9XZ-00040M-Hh@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvo7w6zr8u.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:28:50 -0400)
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> FWIW, replacing `apply` with `eval` is not an "Improve"ment in my
> book :-) It means now that `key-val-alist` contains code represented as
> data (i.e. code to which flymake, the compiler, the eager macroexpander,
> etc... don't have access) whereas it previously only contains values
> (which can't contain code that needs macroexpansion, for example).
+1.
It is cleaner for a hook-like variable to contain a function with
arguments to pass to it, than to contain an expression.
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[not found] ` <20220826200639.2B668C00889@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-08-26 20:28 ` [elpa] externals/auctex cb0a1e6be1 72/77: Improve function calls to retrieve key=vals in style hooks Stefan Monnier
2022-08-26 20:47 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-08-26 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-26 21:17 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-08-27 7:19 ` Arash Esbati
2022-08-27 7:25 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-08-29 19:34 ` Arash Esbati
2022-08-30 5:33 ` TeX-arg-key-val syntax and let go of eval (was: [elpa] externals/auctex cb0a1e6be1 72/77: Improve function calls to retrieve key=vals in style hooks) Tassilo Horn
2022-08-26 22:51 ` [elpa] externals/auctex cb0a1e6be1 72/77: Improve function calls to retrieve key=vals in style hooks Emanuel Berg
2022-08-28 4:04 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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