From: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112347: * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (defcustom, defun, simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review, save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macros rather than special forms. (Bug#13853)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:39:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d2to2h29.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1UTtCq-0003Tj-Lr@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:01:04 +0800")
On 2013-04-21 20:01 +0800, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
> * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (defcustom, defun,
> simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review,
> save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macros rather than
> special forms. (Bug#13853)
"special form" is a better term than "macro". It signals the reader that
the form has special evaluation rule. How the special form is
implemented is details readers need not care about. Please don't change
a clearly written text to worse.
Leo
next parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-21 12:39 UTC|newest]
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2013-04-21 12:39 ` Leo Liu [this message]
2013-04-21 13:00 ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112347: * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (defcustom, defun, simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review, save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macros rather than special forms. (Bug#13853) xfq
2013-04-21 14:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-04-21 16:55 ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112347: *doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (defcustom, defun, simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review, save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macros rather thanspecial " Drew Adams
2013-04-21 17:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-04-21 17:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-04-22 1:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-04-21 18:04 ` Drew Adams
2013-04-21 18:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-04-21 19:40 ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112347:*doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (defcustom, defun, simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review, save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macros ratherthanspecial " Drew Adams
2013-04-22 1:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-04-22 1:35 ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112347:*doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi(defcustom, defun, simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review, save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macrosratherthanspecial " Drew Adams
2013-04-22 2:00 ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112347: *doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (defcustom, defun, simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review, save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macros rather thanspecial " Dmitry Gutov
2013-04-21 18:07 ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112347: * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (defcustom, defun, simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review, save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macros rather than special " Glenn Morris
2013-04-21 22:54 ` xfq
2013-04-22 17:02 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-23 0:47 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-23 16:42 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-23 22:28 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-22 3:17 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-22 10:31 ` xfq
2013-04-22 14:11 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-22 14:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-04-22 15:37 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-22 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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