From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Multiline Comments Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:01:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87zh3qheg3.fsf@web.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14416"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:qFkWns63iyX24c9ndXhjBdD/G2M= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 09 14:02:05 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1kc6o9-0003c9-Dc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:02:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34016 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kc6o8-0002is-CG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:02:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47032) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kc6nZ-0002hI-H6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:58076 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kc6nX-0004IZ-1u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:01:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kc6nR-0002eN-TX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:01:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/09 08:01:24 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125123 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: > > (defmacro multic (&rest _) nil) > I wish I could understand how that macro works for multi line > comments. The macro lets evaluation ignore all enclosed expressions. A similar effect can be reached by quoting lop-level expressions. That's already all. If what is enclosed is not a set of valid expressions, you get... problems. Michael.