From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: never use `eval' (was: Re: How to mapcar or across a list?) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 03:13:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87zj2w29ch.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> References: <87io9lmb4z.fsf@mbork.pl> <87oajdkqc7.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437009330 12879 80.91.229.3 (16 Jul 2015 01:15:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 01:15:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 16 03:15:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFXlf-0002dP-FI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 03:15:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFXle-0008Fk-Sx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFXlU-0008Eb-7Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:15:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFXlP-0007Tr-AH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:15:08 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47266) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFXlP-0007TS-3W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:15:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFXlO-0002Vb-Gw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 03:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-156.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 03:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-156.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 03:15:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-156.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8w/eGT9qjNbeqnH6znnSBkf0zek= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105758 Archived-At: Barry Margolin 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 , )) > > can practically always be replaced with: > > (setf (symbol-value ) ) Aha, that one! Got it. Please ignore previous question which one is "eval setq". -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573