From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 09:22:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbn958jp0.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87twmxv2ad.fsf@gmail.com
> Probably bad and slow for some Lisps with compiler, but for interpreted
> Lisps (as long as users can't abuse it)?
The reason eval is evil has nothing to do with performance: it's
a software engineering issue. It's kind of like using nconc instead of
append, except magnified many times.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-01 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-30 12:35 Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'? Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-30 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-30 17:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-04 22:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-04 22:58 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-05 9:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-04 23:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-05 9:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-05 20:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-05 20:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-05 4:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-05 9:04 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-05 12:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-01 13:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-01-01 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-01-01 15:59 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-01-02 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
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