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* Re: Why is defun not executed during load-file?
@ 2021-05-30 22:48 Drew Adams
  2021-05-30 22:57 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2021-05-30 22:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Help-Gnu-Emacs (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org); +Cc: Emanuel Berg

> Macros are much more difficult to debug...

`macroexpand` and `macroexpand-1` are your friends.

Separate that first step, which is just reduction
(aka rewriting / reduction semantics), from the
subsequent step of Lisp-evaluating the sexp that
results from it.

So debug the macro-expansion step, to ensure you
get the sexp you want.  And debug evaluation of
that sexp - separately.



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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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