From: C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs lisp - unable to write a function maker
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:47:19 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGdT1goQVNfdvKHSosnMRCe6KPWhpdBLCJopw6og2LZQav4meQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iposlshu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
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>
> Perhaps I'm ruining some didactic exercise here, but if you're using
> eval on something you don't want eval'd until the function is run, you
> should backquote it. This works for me:
>
>
> (defun functionmaker (name form)
> (eval
> `(defun ,name ()
> ,form)))
>
> I used to associate backquoting exclusively with macros, but I think
> that was wrong thinking.
>
> Hope someone will correct me if I've done something dumb here…
>
Wow .. .This worked as I was wanting ... Could you please point me to some
documentation that would help me with things like, when to use "," in front
of the name etc?
Regards,
Kashyap
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-16 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-16 8:46 emacs lisp - unable to write a function maker C K Kashyap
2011-09-16 8:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-09-16 9:26 ` C K Kashyap
2011-09-16 9:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-09-16 9:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-09-16 10:17 ` C K Kashyap [this message]
2011-09-16 11:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-09-16 14:06 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-23 15:31 ` Tim Landscheidt
2011-09-23 16:43 ` Drew Adams
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