From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Why a defmacro that calls a defun?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:26:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ewdf7xk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
I'm poking through Gnus, and seeing a fair number of places with code
that looks like this:
(defmacro nnoo-define-skeleton (backend)
`(eval-and-compile
(nnoo-define-skeleton-1 ',backend)))
(defun nnoo-define-skeleton-1 (backend)
...)
What does this actually do? All I can see happening is that a quote mark
is added before the BACKEND argument in the macro. What is happening
here?
Thanks,
Eric
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2017-10-02 23:26 Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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2017-10-03 17:24 ` Why a defmacro that calls a defun? Barry Margolin
2017-10-03 18:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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