From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master f515d658e5 1/2: Don't quote numbers in byte-run--set-*
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 18:24:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv35g0wb1p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qvkzz6x.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:10:14 +0200")
>> FWIW, the goal wasn't to avoid an `if` but to allow an
>> arbitrary expression. But I agree the gain is minuscule.
> Perhaps we should have a quote-if-not-self-quoting function for these
> things?
We do, it's called `macroexp-quote`, but that does the same as your
`if`, i.e. it does not change the semantics but just optimizes away the
`quote` when it doesn't make a difference. Also we probably wouldn't
want to use it here because `macroexp-quote` is defined much too late
in the bootstrap (or we'd have to move it first).
My proposal was to change the semantics, rather than to "avoid if".
According to it,
(declare (doc-string (foo bar)))
would actually set `doc-string-elt` to the return value of calling (foo
bar) rather than setting it to the list `(foo bar)`.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-19 22:24 UTC|newest]
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2022-06-17 17:58 ` master f515d658e5 1/2: Don't quote numbers in byte-run--set-* Stefan Monnier
2022-06-17 18:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-17 18:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-17 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-18 11:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-18 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-19 11:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-19 12:57 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2022-06-19 13:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-19 16:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-19 22:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-19 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-06-19 22:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-19 23:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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