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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (interactive) call or form?
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:39:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi2c78bu.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a7udr6vq.fsf@zoho.com> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Sun, 08 Apr 2018 18:38:01 +0200")

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

> > So you think people understand "special form"
> > but don't understand "form"?
>
> In a way, yes, because "special form" sounds like something you don't
> understand, while "form" sounds like something you would understand,
> only you don't (probably), so it is more confusing.

These words name different things anyway: the first one is about the
binding of the function cell of the symbol `interactive', the other
names the whole s-exp "(interactive ...)".  AFAIU the OP wanted a
description of the latter.


Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-09 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-08  3:52 (interactive) call or form? Marcin Borkowski
2018-04-08  9:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-04-08 13:56   ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.11853.1523179956.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-08 14:52   ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-08 15:55     ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]     ` <mailman.11888.1523202939.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-08 16:38       ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-09 14:39         ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2018-04-09 19:48           ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]         ` <mailman.11931.1523284766.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-09 18:46           ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found] <mailman.11840.1523159602.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-08  4:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-09 19:54   ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11946.1523303724.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-09 20:58     ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-10  4:29       ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]       ` <mailman.11960.1523334628.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-10 18:32         ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-13 14:40           ` Marcin Borkowski

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