Re: never use `eval' (was: Re: How to mapcar or across a list?)

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> writes:

> I would use something like this:
>
> (defmacro ...

Macros never liked me, and that is mutual. Are they
really preferrable to `eval'?

> For this (and others like it)

... which are? Do you mean the eval + backquote combo?

> it looks like you could instead simply use e.g.
> (apply #'create-book nil title data)

This is what it looks like:

    (eval `(create-book nil ,title ,@data))

With `apply', won't the last "data" be a list, i.e.

    (a b ... n)

instead of

    a b ... n

?

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