From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: shorter form of frequently-seen lisp idiom?
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:20:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5uswaut.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1109096963.491884.134590@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
"rgb" <rbielaws@i1.net> writes:
>> Rule of thumb: if your solution uses `eval' it's either buggy or
> clunky.
>
> Interesting, I've never heard this.
> My elisp isn't all that great yet so I looked for instances where
> I use it.
I use `eval' only when not using it would be tantamount to
implementing a metacircular lisp interpreter.
>
> Is there a collection of more such tips someplace?
ISTR that some tips like that (i.e. using `funcall' or `apply' instead
of `eval') are in the (old?) FAQ for comp.lang.lisp. But it's rather
for common lisp.
Oliver
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2005-02-19 18:43 ` shorter form of frequently-seen lisp idiom? David Kastrup
2005-02-19 23:31 ` August
[not found] ` <mailman.714.1108857188.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-02-19 23:55 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-21 0:07 ` Denis Bueno
2005-02-21 0:17 ` Denis Bueno
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2005-02-21 0:28 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-22 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-22 18:29 ` rgb
2005-02-22 18:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-02-23 16:29 ` rgb
2005-02-23 18:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-02-22 21:20 ` Oliver Scholz [this message]
2005-02-22 22:16 ` Drew Adams
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2005-02-23 18:48 ` rgb
2005-02-19 18:33 Joe Corneli
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