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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lambdas for beginners broken - help, please
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:18:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86v80u59s9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttgezhej.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor on Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:03:48 +0200)

> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:03:48 +0200
> From:  Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >   lambda is a Lisp macro in ‘subr.el’.
> >
> >   (lambda ARGS [DOCSTRING] [INTERACTIVE] BODY)
> >
> >   Return an anonymous function.
> >   Under dynamic binding, a call of the form (lambda ARGS DOCSTRING
> >   INTERACTIVE BODY) is self-quoting; the result of evaluating the
> >   lambda expression is the expression itself.
> 
> Agreed, this is at least misleading.  Stefan, Eli?

What is misleading?

I admit that I don't have a clear understanding of the issue: I don't
understand what Eduardo wants to do in the first place, nor which
version of Emacs broke what he did or why.  So maybe wait for Stefan
to chime in.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-07-25  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-24  8:43 Lambdas for beginners broken - help, please Eduardo Ochs
2024-07-24 13:12 ` Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-07-24 16:43   ` Eduardo Ochs
2024-07-24 20:03     ` Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-07-24 22:06       ` Eduardo Ochs
2024-07-25  5:18       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-07-25  9:44         ` Eduardo Ochs
2024-07-25 11:33           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-25 12:49             ` Eduardo Ochs
2024-07-25 14:53               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-24 16:54 ` tpeplt
2024-07-24 18:49   ` Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-07-24 19:29     ` tpeplt
2024-07-24 19:58       ` Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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