From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [SOLVED with `eval']: Why I cannot use this variable in macro call from function? Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 23:47:09 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20210608183138.GA14693@tuxteam.de> <20210608200312.GE14693@tuxteam.de> <20210608202326.GG14693@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29985"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) Cc: Help GNU Emacs To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 08 22:52:48 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 1lqiiN-0007ZS-L4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 22:52:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59390 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lqiiM-0001PU-Eg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57992) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lqigw-0000F1-Jn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:35697) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lqigr-0005H2-Il for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.23]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000AE2EE.0000000060BFD83E.000013FB; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:51:09 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: tomas@tuxteam.de, Help GNU Emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210608202326.GG14693@tuxteam.de> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-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:130649 Archived-At: * tomas@tuxteam.de [2021-06-08 23:23]: > OK. Since you can't go back in time, you can set the variable > for a part of the program which isn't yet compiled. Otherwise > you'd have to "un-compile" your program first, right? Should I worry now? Sounds like I should (defun my-hello (string) (interactive "sYour name: ") (eval (list 'message-box (concat "Hello " string)))) If that works dynamically then my function should also work. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/