From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Why a defmacro that calls a defun? Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:26:15 -0700 Message-ID: <877ewdf7xk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506986825 30328 195.159.176.226 (2 Oct 2017 23:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 23:27:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.60 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 03 01:27:01 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dzA70-0007HY-QQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 01:26:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55128 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzA78-0005XK-8r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45957) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzA6d-0005X2-I2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzA6Y-0007Ij-Lr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43421 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzA6Y-0007Hq-EH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dzA6J-0003H3-5x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 01:26:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:kTA7re6XrK1P/wS+p5hppes+P8Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114502 Archived-At: 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