From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heime Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Passing result of macroexpand-all as argument to a function Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2023 02:04:28 +0000 Message-ID: <7UdMwafROXrUj4VaBblHwkDb-7OTPRW1sNmYNp-sgDXy8OcnRSi5lVBqSH6paHUUhAFI4k2PczFtkC6qIZVFnFRxmlB5GVn-AljwKbn_JcI=@protonmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34628"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor To: Pierre Rouleau Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 09 04:05:12 2023 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 1qTYZT-0008kq-CA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:05:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qTYYw-0005Jg-Gb; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 22:04:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qTYYv-0005JX-7F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 22:04:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-4027.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.27]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qTYYs-0007v0-Uq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 22:04:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1691546672; x=1691805872; bh=BaCeH6pGzMU0E+KItSBk9CnMt76YJLFQHZnoDifNA+I=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=VRSTD2Wroq5JSVrETT45Hi5iWhAkuOTvignDq0mF+ESZTNjSa0Xs7MFaZoNC5sDhp GC0QV7rT5/GhJvOV5v2avMJICLHlNcW95fqzeb6MSAyRD5OM0kbsOG+XJT4odeTAlP XjJP6H9LDxl6K8eI3bGxPrU4+dhfuHYTv4BhBdXrBS6SH+ztWDYZhGGPRiu/7HdjY5 OQMiFNXwrb2bywrqrQx8hX9/oSFnJweNZ6d87lkJnORIdw3xmZKMOzjfLPgbbA7XHS 7PvpCbFS0UDLF3zHn+J1PrmMtZEBeOJQL/sqAnrWC1OlZFkWfUZDcadP4/mptggm2c X3Lkb3WlgrfBA== In-Reply-To: Feedback-ID: 57735886:user:proton Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.27; envelope-from=heimeborgia@protonmail.com; helo=mail-4027.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144700 Archived-At: Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 at 1:37 PM, Pierre Rouleau wrote: > On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 8:22=E2=80=AFPM Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com w= rote: >=20 > > 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 ? > >=20 > > I would be using > >=20 > > (macroexpand-all (this-macro arg)) > >=20 > > which I would pass as argument to a function. > >=20 > > 1- What is the problem that you are trying to solve? >=20 >=20 > 2- If you want to pass something to a function and you want that somethin= g > 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. >=20 > 3- If #2 is not clear, reading a LISP tutorial will help. Investing time > reading on LISP and Emacs Lisp will help a lot. =20 I am going to pass=20 (myfunc (macroexpand-all something arg) bfname) How would I define myfunc ? Will (macroexpand-all something arg) be in a form of a list (list of names and arguments) or what ? =20 =20 > -- > /Pierre