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From: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Meta-code confusion
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:04:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA98268CCDA0@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <barmar-1E534F.18025910082012@news.eternal-september.org>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of Barry Margolin
> Sent: Friday, 2012 August 10 18:03
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Meta-code confusion
> 
> In article <mailman.6744.1344634688.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>  Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com> wrote:
> 
> > The current work-around is to build a string that looks right and
> then (eval
> > (read THAT-STRING)) and let the results of that be the return value.
> 
> That's almost always the wrong thing.  Rather than that, you should
> build a list (probably using backquote to fill in a template) and then
> (eval THAT-LIST).

I suspected that. It's certainly not a satisfying solution

> 
> But more likely, you probably need to define your own macro rather than
> a function.

And I do suppose that this would be more correct (and satisfying). I'm not fluent in macros and try to avoid them, but maybe the time has come....

Thanks for the advice.

,Doug




  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-10 19:12 Meta-code confusion Doug Lewan
2012-08-10 21:38 ` Doug Lewan
     [not found] ` <mailman.6744.1344634688.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-10 22:02   ` Barry Margolin
2012-08-13 14:04     ` Doug Lewan [this message]
2012-08-13 16:44       ` Aurélien Aptel

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