From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Why is defun not executed during load-file? Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 04:56:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87mtsbd31w.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87k0nfesns.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21247"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:hA6bFx0BR8NILG6Ed8XRZciGQGI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 31 04:56:45 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lnY6f-0005Jh-Ao for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 May 2021 04:56:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33324 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnY6e-00047h-B3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 30 May 2021 22:56:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnY6I-00046F-3d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 May 2021 22:56:22 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:42142) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnY6G-0000JA-EH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 May 2021 22:56:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lnY6E-0004tL-TB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2021 04:56:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130384 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> Also, writing macros compared to writing functions >> typically involves more bugs... > > Why do you think so? [...] Maybe because it involves an extra layer, writing something that will write something that will do something instead of writing something that will do something... > But what evidence is there? Just keep on adding layers. Write something to write something to write something ... etc. It gets more difficult for each level added, is what we think. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal