From: Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compiling a recursive macro
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:38:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <de2dffa6-29f1-c16c-b5b3-c2d58930547e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfkt47bl.fsf@web.de>
On 6/11/20 5:32 PM, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (defmacro mmm ()
>> (cond ((at-root-p)
>> do tree-wide stuff)
>> (t
>> (with-current-buffer root (mmm)))
> That really looks like this shouldn't be a macro. Why do you want this
> to be a macro?
The macro itself has to establish a new variable for each buffer in the
tree of buffers. It's somehow not natural (to me) to pass 'new-var to a
defun that's supposed to act like (defvar).
--
,Doug
d.lewan2000@gmail.com
(908) 720 7908
If this is what winning looks like, I'd hate to see what losing is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-11 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-11 20:15 Compiling a recursive macro Douglas Lewan
2020-06-11 20:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-11 21:23 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-06-11 21:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-06-11 21:38 ` Douglas Lewan [this message]
2020-06-11 21:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-06-11 22:21 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-06-12 10:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-06-12 16:11 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-06-12 2:10 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-06-13 9:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-06-13 13:34 ` Jakub Jankiewicz
2020-06-11 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-11 21:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-06-12 0:03 ` Jakub Jankiewicz
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