From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: van@scratch.space, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposing "alist" macro
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fxnDJ-0005Sa-Fi@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-9mD4414Cpjh_tn5NY=E6GYpuJjKPhFanja1wfGf1n6TQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Wed, 5 Sep 2018 09:06:25 -0400)
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> The proposed macro expansions do eval all the args.
Do they unconditionally eval all the args once and only once
in the order that they are written in the call?
If so, there is no need for a macro, so you could use
a function or defsubst.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-06 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-18 1:57 Proposing "alist" macro Adam Porter
2018-08-21 15:45 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-05 12:41 ` Van L
2018-09-05 13:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-05 13:16 ` Van L
2018-09-05 14:05 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-06 5:52 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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