From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: never use `eval' (was: Re: How to mapcar or across a list?)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 03:13:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj2w29ch.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: barmar-526E2F.20015515072015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> (defun set-color-face (name front &optional bold
>> back) (eval `(defvar ,(make-symbol name))) (eval
>> `(setq ,(intern name) `((t (:foreground ,front
>> :background ,back :bold ,bold) )))))
>
> (eval `(setq ,<expr> <val>))
>
> can practically always be replaced with:
>
> (setf (symbol-value <expr>) <val>)
Aha, that one! Got it. Please ignore previous question
which one is "eval setq".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-16 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-15 20:14 How to mapcar or across a list? Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-15 20:42 ` Rasmus
2015-07-15 20:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-15 22:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-15 22:21 ` John Mastro
[not found] ` <mailman.6977.1436998965.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-15 22:28 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-15 22:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-15 22:57 ` never use `eval' (was: Re: How to mapcar or across a list?) Emanuel Berg
2015-07-15 23:27 ` John Mastro
2015-07-15 23:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-16 0:18 ` John Mastro
[not found] ` <mailman.6984.1437004760.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-16 0:04 ` Barry Margolin
[not found] ` <mailman.6982.1437001117.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-16 0:01 ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-16 1:13 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2015-07-17 0:55 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.7027.1437094623.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-17 1:39 ` never use `eval' Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-17 2:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-17 8:36 ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-17 8:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-16 0:22 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-16 1:11 ` Emanuel Berg
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