From: tomas@tuxteam.de (Tomas Zerolo)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:37:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051230053729.GA29778@www.trapp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873bkb4t14.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:12:40PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
[...]
> > Thanks for the explanation. There's a lot of strange things in
> > elisp--mostly around compilation and evaluation--that I don't understand
> > and every little bit helps. Maybe another reading of these sections in
> > the elisp manual will make more sense now.
>
> Actually this difference between macros and functions applies to 99% of
> all languages.
Yes, but for a big proportion of those 99% your theorem applies trivially
(there are no macros), and for the rest... in most of thenm macros look
so utterly different from the rest of the language that this is a
non-issue.
The Lisp way of macros is a very special beast indeed.
Regards
-- tomas
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-28 23:05 add-hook versus custom-set-variables Bill Wohler
2005-12-29 3:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-29 7:44 ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-29 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-29 10:05 ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-29 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-30 5:37 ` Tomas Zerolo [this message]
2005-12-30 20:52 ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-30 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-31 19:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-31 19:47 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-31 21:00 ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-31 21:26 ` David Kastrup
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