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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is defun not executed during load-file?
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 00:57:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0nfesns.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SA2PR10MB447454E533E3CB40B73D57A7F3209@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com

Drew Adams wrote:

>> Macros are much more difficult to debug...
>
> `macroexpand` and `macroexpand-1` are your friends.

Also, writing macros compared to writing functions typically
involves more bugs...

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-30 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-30 22:48 Why is defun not executed during load-file? Drew Adams
2021-05-30 22:57 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-05-31  2:05   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-31  2:56     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-31  5:05       ` Drew Adams
2021-05-31 19:20         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-31 19:47           ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-31 20:09             ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-06-07  2:19             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-07  6:27               ` Jean Louis
2021-06-07 14:18               ` FW: " Drew Adams
2021-06-07 14:41                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-31 21:40           ` Example use of macro to minimize and generalize the code Jean Louis
2021-05-31 23:37             ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-31 23:59               ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01  0:34                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01  0:39                   ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01  0:59                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01  1:25                       ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 14:02                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 16:33                           ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 16:54                             ` Yuri Khan
2021-06-01 17:24                               ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 17:57                                 ` Yuri Khan
2021-06-01 18:12                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-05-31 21:45           ` Example use of macro to minimize and generalize the code (2) Jean Louis
2021-05-31 21:48           ` [External] : Re: Why is defun not executed during load-file? Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-31 23:41           ` Drew Adams
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2021-05-30  9:02 Jean Louis
2021-05-30 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-30 15:36   ` Jean Louis
2021-05-30 16:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-30 19:56       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-30 21:46         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-30 21:55           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-30 19:44 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-30 21:56   ` Jean Louis
2021-05-30 22:07     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-30 22:39       ` Jean Louis
2021-05-30 23:26         ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-30 23:37           ` Jean Louis

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