Re: eval-when-compile

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon
> <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>> If you try to load the .el file directly, then the macro is not defined,
>> and you're trying to call a function named (ewc-macro) which will fail.
>
> That's incorrect.  Things inside the eval-when-compile get evaluated
> when the .el file is loaded, but not when the .elc file is loaded.
> It's *not* the equivalent of Common Lisp's (eval-when (compile)
> body...)

You're right, I misread C-h f eval-when-compile.  
Hence the importance of reading well the documentation!


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