Re: Programmatic let

[Burton Samograd <burton@samograd.ca>]

Lluís <xscript@gmx.net> writes:

> My elisp foo is quite poor, so this might well be a completely stupid approach
> to the problem.
>
> I have a callback that gets automatically called, and uses some orgmode-specific
> routines whose behaviour can be tuned through some customizable variables.
>
> The usual approach in orgmode is:
>
>   (let ((org-v1 ...) (org-v2 ...)) (org-func ...))
>
> As my function is automatically called (as a response to the D-Bus message), I'd
> like to let the user specify a let-like form to let her temporarily override the
> behaviour of the `org-func' that my package invokes:
>
>   (setq my-cb-org-vars '((org-v1 ...) (org-v2 ...)))
>   (defun my-cb (...)
>     (programmatic-let my-cb-org-vars
>       (org-func ...)))

This should work:

(defmacro programmatic-let (vars &rest body)
    `(let ,vars
          ,@body))

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Burton Samograd