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From: Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Passing result of macroexpand-all as argument to a function
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 21:37:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALTqLiaX=5LPOEB_rfBGX3+TmKC3ZRrHxSM-X7KWwgZpXeYc5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wfjZtOOVuhuQ61fghs8SFtJiAHoEMmnTGwaGutw-ZdB3Yh5KrJsocuL1V-AfUkdmk2-gD0aH_2paux_91KVpPWhHDPuLDTEv8xDCKD-seQU=@protonmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 8:22 PM Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> If I want to pass the result of a macro without final evaluation as
> argument
> to a function, what kind of structure will it be ?
>
> I would be using
>
> (macroexpand-all (this-macro arg))
>
> which I would pass as argument to a function.
>
> 1- What is the problem that you are trying to solve?

2- If you want to pass something to a function and you want that something
not evaluated, then: quote it.  The function can later evaluate it if it
needs to extract the result of the expression, or it can print it using a
string formatting function.

3- If #2 is not clear, reading a LISP tutorial will help.   Investing time
reading on LISP and Emacs Lisp will help a lot.




-- 
/Pierre


  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-09  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-09  0:22 Passing result of macroexpand-all as argument to a function Heime
2023-08-09  1:37 ` Pierre Rouleau [this message]
2023-08-09  2:04   ` Heime
2023-08-09  2:26     ` Corwin Brust
2023-08-09  2:40       ` Heime
2023-08-09  2:27     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-08-09  2:53       ` Heime
2023-08-09  4:02         ` Pierre Rouleau
2023-08-09  4:14         ` Drew Adams
2023-08-09  3:37       ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-09  4:13         ` Heime
2023-08-09  4:36           ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-09  4:54             ` Heime
2023-08-09 15:21               ` Drew Adams
2023-08-09  4:28         ` Drew Adams
2023-08-09  3:39     ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-09  5:06       ` Heime
2023-08-09 15:27         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-08-09 20:34           ` Heime
2023-08-09 21:24             ` Drew Adams
2023-08-09 21:32               ` Heime

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