From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Why is defun not executed during load-file?
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 04:56:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtsbd31w.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SA2PR10MB44744E2DEE235F15257F4247F33F9@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com
Drew Adams wrote:
>> Also, writing macros compared to writing functions
>> typically involves more bugs...
>
> Why do you think so? [...]
Maybe because it involves an extra layer, writing something
that will write something that will do something instead of
writing something that will do something...
> But what evidence is there?
Just keep on adding layers. Write something to write something
to write something ... etc. It gets more difficult for each
level added, is what we think.
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-30 22:48 Why is defun not executed during load-file? Drew Adams
2021-05-30 22:57 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-31 2:05 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-31 2:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-05-31 5:05 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-31 19:20 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-31 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-31 20:09 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-06-07 2:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-07 6:27 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-07 14:18 ` FW: " Drew Adams
2021-06-07 14:41 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-31 21:40 ` Example use of macro to minimize and generalize the code Jean Louis
2021-05-31 23:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-31 23:59 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 0:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 0:39 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 0:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 1:25 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 14:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 16:33 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 16:54 ` Yuri Khan
2021-06-01 17:24 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 17:57 ` Yuri Khan
2021-06-01 18:12 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-31 21:45 ` Example use of macro to minimize and generalize the code (2) Jean Louis
2021-05-31 21:48 ` [External] : Re: Why is defun not executed during load-file? Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-31 23:41 ` Drew Adams
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