From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] externals/auctex cb0a1e6be1 72/77: Improve function calls to retrieve key=vals in style hooks Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <166154439039.10036.933483657788018296@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220826200639.2B668C00889@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5758"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, tsdh@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 28 06:09:37 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9c9-0001LI-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 06:09:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45848 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9c7-0003Sp-JY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9Xa-0006eM-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59612) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9Xa-0008Nz-AI; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:54 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=NdCNAhJ3zi/36ZNG73JuVAIy7zkaFCt+ojdfmOuytw8=; b=hLbWB95UipQu xKFlnd+EeO+sSp4YgRmSGHFYjeADguKorqpzVD60mVmqM7zDpFyH93Vv+YEjTRM9oXRu+775tcFf4 Nv0kqWh4AVjLLt+CwsPr9Kf6o5sQRYaLGHxbNtS5b9OQrCNlNADhkGfv6Xc9895YXmAFcqN0XqkEA h6KDig92wKuu3RijxQrow9CAKOmshmwZ1OgSIIUSwzKBYSIgKQj2uA5ofLPLoDYUTmpBXGKg09h0J jpmHC+Pj6XFFOYtTJe3eINj4VKQUfmlPX7zmFZZeVmtJR2eOp9xbzNtRPagluIn+rYD3ETpuSqhkE woo4KcjWsNe+ntsDaKjdjQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9XZ-00040M-Hh; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:28:50 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294200 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > FWIW, replacing `apply` with `eval` is not an "Improve"ment in my > book :-) It means now that `key-val-alist` contains code represented as > data (i.e. code to which flymake, the compiler, the eager macroexpander, > etc... don't have access) whereas it previously only contains values > (which can't contain code that needs macroexpansion, for example). +1. It is cleaner for a hook-like variable to contain a function with arguments to pass to it, than to contain an expression. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)