From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible for a macro to expand to nothing? Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:43:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87ljhwb2dx.fsf@galatea.local> <87ocmp7d81.fsf@galatea.local> <87fx817a72.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259239609 8744 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2009 12:46:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 13:46:42 2009 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 4.50) id 1NDdk8-0004Ln-S7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:46:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47493 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDdk8-0005vK-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:46:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDdhL-0004dq-Pn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:43:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDdhG-0004Y7-Dh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:43:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43857 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDdhG-0004Xl-6n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:43:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yx0-f175.google.com ([209.85.210.175]:32921) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDdhF-0000e3-St for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:43:42 -0500 Original-Received: by yxe5 with SMTP id 5so659826yxe.24 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:43:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=aY1vsCaPNlZ81CMRa0eHgkdm6szMBgeG1x4XxosvsFE=; b=tF4p9RFLT+jvL+pzDfu9GxwxgoXiIklcRnnZC99gSZcdCYIkoUrBOE2n9oYoy0gHv5 B+yksLMxI4fG/nNxHXr2NcDNxiEm2HJsfgowqN8QzrfQ9h6TbZNZOnjEg3Fsf8seZ1JV l0zADyP803cUI7sFnCebx2s4wG1M8Qq42+BbM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=owNQAxpEBA8do3aIT5nzSOPTB1S+MhIAnQGcp0RcAJhxO2DzIUYpRm84fiOle/8m9I XYJ3g8+JxAZp0ry6ZcGLWO8PZ0roDnAJEq4SF3qlDH5m+sETkfJcQ/SfcVFELjWFSeTt XpdzwvjdFS50JqtSD6eor7sFBif6awZpRR3Yo= Original-Received: by 10.101.133.26 with SMTP id k26mr822117ann.131.1259239421112; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:43:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87fx817a72.fsf@galatea.local> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:70146 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > > But stylistic reasons ARE technical reasons. =C2=A0They're even very stro= ng > technical reasons. They can be, but they are not necessarily that. You must give an argument for the style.