From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (interactive) call or form? Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:39:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87zi2c78bu.fsf@web.de> References: <87a7uee4oc.fsf@mbork.pl> <86lgdxrbqw.fsf@zoho.com> <86a7udr6vq.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523284674 17443 195.159.176.226 (9 Apr 2018 14:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 14:37:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 09 16:37:50 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f5XvX-0004Ls-CU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:37:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Xxb-0004Lm-5K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51875) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Xx6-0004Kc-F7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Xx2-0005lZ-II for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:50703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Xx2-0005kc-9Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:39:20 -0400 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([94.218.191.141]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MV4tp-1eze9b29QT-00YR6o; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:39:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <86a7udr6vq.fsf@zoho.com> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Sun, 08 Apr 2018 18:38:01 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:3E3xjwbuWlEncl+WUX7+EsqDGKBuIFZecIv1vvQsi2LheAvFOtf uCX1qsxd5sAZg4TYxGUKTL/lFUSH4zSkCIXawdGcYKiok3Is1TEZOLskPDbSz/2cQT0gPr2 P3149u12vecfUA56s7mHLAiZ7x1bk6qPQ0peEl5DtX9TwDOLoqmIjVu9g08StDvZasl2D6v 8haFxkPq94dzRWYZpP3DQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:r7c4g22o8E8=:4uVb39uBqnXIvif6qgHbMq Ml8ly+YOAMhXm6ND5A5xOLM01wzqraOirQ675AQvpw/YG7J3pcFP3dIKBjue4GoCwFSNc4FS9 LjqXdWd1ovgtvwWb8LXDJDEiaKzlihu6iSQuIVxyH8MMXKBgu9SOFfqdUBBfaR+ln4rJmHQPF ki55cZu44dj3NY3RhSr/Tts+83eDQNx5Rx4vTinjAchwBi7n6SfQCIEvWMKvY/2pX+jkMJE9y 5w5ks8P5jorQiGniiFVkVKAEKtv0uT/EGfCBzT5uj7W7CHYn5MFuvaLFE2rkMaH0YaQxU+/bs G2yyyP0aWjT9Qx193lF9cH5Z1rwo+/m1R2Ylso09+rfQzB4hzCKHLwagBNAg/TyktzmcnWlRH AOJYptt8m6Ibi2usWmMnGkxjXZkBgr+89i0YYvz1EFrpmIFILBm38gURbYCBG+AbWg9jHjL3s fLfBXbt/dfGOSTP6kTw05ViiNYnt+bi2xuf2y7JfzAyntacp9keBV5+7WbZcmHPY/bPggdpX0 NVR41JOkScczBzHHVlIGrdVtbPfH9dKUE7pDCF1FHCg6KUpGqFwy8IK/eYqJeW1ZtuYyLbTrx d6VujAEEsE8ihxzoNdWP3bqMDjMcsrBRwQ159N7tTC98/TM4/9fPJKzUXLJ2U9Uew50TpI/eC PiNMn1XolyItFvLaghfh9Qdzu7eTATZIUlI7rJjAVef9vvD9tIV8ClzuJuA/WUbouzoe56K0n JlW5CrD8Fvpf+AoH6GFd9fzKh7604lRuKqYmvOYWHRz2JRRr4hIFy1nfw76jxS1ETOeTFN3U X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116419 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg 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.