From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lexical binding and macros.
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:10:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-552454.23104311122010@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.40.1292017369.4804.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.40.1292017369.4804.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Alin Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr> wrote:
> Are the macros and closures equivalent ?
No. Emacs Lisp has macros, it doesn't have closures. But in dialects
of Lisp that have both, they're completely different.
> The set of macros is greater than the set of closures?
>
> The set of closures is greater than the set of macros?
These questions don't even make sense.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.40.1292017369.4804.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-12 4:10 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2010-12-12 17:14 ` Lexical binding and macros LanX
2010-12-12 17:23 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-12-15 4:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-15 9:15 ` Elena
2010-12-15 12:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-12-15 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-15 16:16 ` David Kastrup
2010-12-15 17:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-12-15 17:54 ` Elena
2010-12-16 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-10 21:42 Alin Soare
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