From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Lexical binding and macros. Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:10:43 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292154352 5975 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2010 11:45:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:45:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 12 12:45:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PRkNA-00084L-5o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:45:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51140 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PRkN9-0003yo-OB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:45:47 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="+bxBiZT/p0ZLLuDb5H+JCw"; logging-data="10089"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+6kGaSM+DNomm7VoSg6rv1" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hznLaHOS3s6LplxalcdjkJXOmEU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183180 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:45:20 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77431 Archived-At: In article , Alin Soare 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 *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***