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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Subject: Anaphoric macros: increase visibility
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 17:39:15 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701131738310.18493@calancha-pc> (raw)


Hi,

I think anaphoric macros are a nice idiom; occasionally
they allow to write very concise and clear expressions.

AFAICS, in the Emacs tree they are just introduced
in ibuf-macs.el (`ibuffer-aif', `ibuffer-awhen').

To use these macros in Emacs code we must:
1) Define them again (code duplication).
2) Or require ibuf-macs, which it sounds not conventional.

It might have sense to move these general purpose macros
into a more visible location (subr.el or subr-x.el).

We might add other useful macros as well, e.g., awhile.

What do you think?

Tino



             reply	other threads:[~2017-01-13  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-13  8:39 Tino Calancha [this message]
2017-01-13 19:48 ` Anaphoric macros: increase visibility Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-14  2:30   ` Rolf Ade
2017-01-14  2:48     ` Rolf Ade
2017-01-14  3:03     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-01-14  4:13       ` Richard Copley
2017-01-14  5:27   ` Tino Calancha
2017-01-15  0:39     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-15  2:24       ` On the naming/behavior of {if, when}-let (was Re: Anaphoric macros: increase visibility) Mark Oteiza
2017-01-15  2:26       ` Anaphoric macros: increase visibility Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-15 10:24       ` Tino Calancha
2017-01-15 15:32         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-16  2:44           ` Tino Calancha
2017-01-16  3:59             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-14  6:25   ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2017-01-14  7:56     ` Tino Calancha
2017-01-14 10:15       ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2017-01-15  0:29         ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-15  2:03           ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2017-01-15  2:16             ` Michael Heerdegen

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