From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 14:48:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twmxv2ad.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k2nw866r.fsf@mbork.pl
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
Hi,
> And please don't tell me that eval is evil;
> that I know, in fact, I'm asking partly to gather some arguments;-).
Isn't "code = data" the core principle of Lisp, and eval the basic way
to use data as code?
Probably bad and slow for some Lisps with compiler, but for interpreted
Lisps (as long as users can't abuse it)?
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-01 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-30 12:35 Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'? Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-30 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-30 17:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-04 22:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-04 22:58 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-05 9:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-04 23:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-05 9:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-05 20:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-05 20:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-05 4:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-05 9:04 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-05 12:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-01 13:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2016-01-01 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-01 15:59 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-01-02 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
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