From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: (interactive) call or form? Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 06:56:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8efe7db8-b86e-48f0-9ade-bac28d931ec4@default> References: <87a7uee4oc.fsf@mbork.pl> <87h8omyrfk.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523195732 21979 195.159.176.226 (8 Apr 2018 13:55:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 13:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Michael Heerdegen , Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 08 15:55:28 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 1f5An2-0005d3-2V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:55:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56626 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Ap7-0000eJ-Qv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33925) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Aog-0000dV-1p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Aob-0000ce-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from userp2120.oracle.com ([156.151.31.85]:42482) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Aob-0000RF-Kz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 09:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from pps.filterd (userp2120.oracle.com [127.0.0.1]) by userp2120.oracle.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w38D5Do8103395; Sun, 8 Apr 2018 13:56:57 GMT DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=oracle.com; h=mime-version : message-id : date : from : sender : to : cc : subject : references : in-reply-to : content-type : content-transfer-encoding; s=corp-2017-10-26; bh=l4TdC0C8YyAIQ70bSq6/jIpSVX+lBmW4/OPeWZn/AnQ=; b=bGaYd7psGxk+EDLHvpnpGQabYwNleVnl05Tdm9fz0139PKhR1W/ae5rr2rOIAIgIr63N B356DBTLBrKrL+9Va5MjowzzTMqUx6TdhmjICf+5+TNYsB5DglZ9vDx0Yk64YqMhCRqh u6GSFIbBdEucD2TRlJgEVBVzsZftnN4KUhsDLAglrc1uFfxpAVv+Emgf9ILd1kxgn6OT 4+pUX3n1JguDgzfGuzpCgMMZYIfyri03vE39TyiGIM9zvuxFNsakbAgfTBY3P5l4XwEs bqAyY7f/dauMGjlbEhkT5Z+yrt0vjgV2mHVZCwuay2ayB/BsBZEzw+TQQ2S694xDjhhx WA== Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by userp2120.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2h6pn4a8bc-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 08 Apr 2018 13:56:57 +0000 Original-Received: from userv0122.oracle.com (userv0122.oracle.com [156.151.31.75]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w38DuubG005270 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 8 Apr 2018 13:56:57 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0012.oracle.com (abhmp0012.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by userv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w38Duso2026656; Sun, 8 Apr 2018 13:56:54 GMT In-Reply-To: <87h8omyrfk.fsf@web.de> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4678.0 (x86)] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5900 definitions=8856 signatures=668698 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1711220000 definitions=main-1804080142 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.85 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:116404 Archived-At: > > So, is it better to call it a "form" or a "call"? >=20 > The manual very often calls it a "form", so it's probably ok to use this > term. >=20 > Personally I would prefer something else ("spec" maybe), to accentuate > that it's rather something like a declaration: it's semantics imply more > than the effect of calling it. Yes. It is a special form that is used as a spec or declaration of how the args are created/provided to the function body. That said, the code used as the arg to `interactive', apart from the literal-string case, is not declarative at all.