From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#55038: 29.0.50; Does macroexp-file-name return nil unnecessarily? Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:57:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87fsm67iow.fsf@gnus.org> References: <875yn3zw07.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2675"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 55038@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 21 14:10:50 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nhVe5-0000VP-7V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:10:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49788 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nhVe4-0006MO-6X for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 08:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38780) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nhVRi-0004mr-FR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:54699) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nhVRi-0001YE-2z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nhVRi-0004L2-1r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:58:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:58:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 55038 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 55038-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B55038.165054225216631 (code B ref 55038); Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 55038) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Apr 2022 11:57:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48596 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nhVRE-0004KB-0d for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:55604) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nhVRC-0004Jw-KQ for 55038@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:57:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=YFlonmkz6CpX/LnSAijDhYbrjPc3frUmMqID9O6SZiM=; b=MM5i/oyK4ZHWUVMaBhzMkPe4In xl28iVFN7phd/jGwJ82lWk1iVpGpLVOMEOHrs8gcDrdmCcY6yaE4KKHJJfxKlQAtiItonl6BTnEiA +daavk+g6vNMhgYDwQ0bMdhBYAxGEFCgwhSNVZj8ODTdDSKcjwh7jR3xa4BR+bc6eX8M=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=xo) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nhVR2-0004hs-5w; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:57:22 +0200 X-Now-Playing: Beequeen & Stetson's _Mort Aux Vaches_: "I'm searching for field character" In-Reply-To: <875yn3zw07.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:10:00 +0000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:230352 Archived-At: Philip Kaludercic writes: > Consider a macro like > > (defmacro foo () > `(message "Defined in %s" ,(macroexp-file-name))) > > Why does this expand to > > (message "Defined in %s" nil) > > when evaluated directly in a file (say using `eval-buffer' or > `eval-last-sexp`). Shouldn't it be fair to return the file name of the > buffer, if nothing else can be used: [...] > Or is there something that would go wrong in that case? Such a change sounds like a good one to me, but perhaps there's a good reason it works the way it does today. Perhaps Stefan has a comment; added to the CCs. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no