From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible for a macro to expand to nothing?
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:16:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fx817a72.fsf@galatea.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.11564.1259236392.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon
> <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>>
>> It is a _style_ reason. A question of good taste. The same reason
>> why you don't poop in your living room. It would be bad style.
>
>
> Now it is much easier to understand. I had the impression you had a
> technical reason.
But stylistic reasons ARE technical reasons. They're even very strong
technical reasons.
It's all bits, so in the end it doesn't matter what you do, does it?
However your programs will still be better if you respect the
abstractions and expectations required by the human programmer minds
to understand them and debug them.
Read for example:
http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/07/aa-bb-cc-and-dd.html
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
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2009-11-23 14:56 Is it possible for a macro to expand to nothing? Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-23 16:03 ` Drew Adams
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2009-11-23 16:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-23 17:29 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-23 18:33 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-23 18:51 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.11354.1259004470.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-23 20:08 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-23 20:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-23 22:09 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.11367.1259014174.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-23 23:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-24 0:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-24 9:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-24 10:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-24 11:14 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-24 16:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-24 19:17 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-25 14:13 ` Jeff Clough
[not found] ` <mailman.11467.1259158369.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-26 6:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-26 11:11 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-26 11:52 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.11564.1259236392.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-26 12:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-11-26 12:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 8:32 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.11626.1259310779.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-27 13:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-27 13:52 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-27 16:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-27 17:09 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-27 17:19 ` Helmut Eller
2009-11-27 17:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-27 23:17 ` Tim X
2009-11-28 0:06 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-28 8:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-28 10:25 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-28 12:57 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.11699.1259413441.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-29 0:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-24 11:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.11352.1258997403.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-23 18:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-23 20:12 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.11356.1259007263.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-23 20:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-23 22:09 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.11368.1259014177.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-24 0:03 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-23 20:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-23 16:49 ` Jeff Clough
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