From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Macro vs Function Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:14:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144840513 25394 80.91.229.2 (12 Apr 2006 11:15:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 12 13:15:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTdJA-0007DZ-5H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:14:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTdJ9-00023L-2v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FTdIv-00022R-P2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:14:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FTdIs-00021X-9m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:14:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTdIs-00021U-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.15] (helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FTdNv-0005sP-18; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A20D1EBFF; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:14:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Herbert Euler" X-Yow: Sorry, wrong ZIP CODE!! In-Reply-To: (Herbert Euler's message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:39:19 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52744 Archived-At: "Herbert Euler" writes: > Why does (f) in this example not get evaluated? Because the point of a macro is that you can transform the arguments into a new form to be evaluated. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."