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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
Cc: 60450@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60450: 30.0.50; Strange behavior of compiler macros in *scratch*
Date: Mon, 08 May 2023 08:25:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv8h3nhjl.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d14aa519-69ce-b71e-4c07-6c654a28ab03@gmail.com> ("Gerd Möllmann"'s message of "Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:22:31 +0100")

> The doc string of cl-define-compiler-macro says
>   "This is like ‘defmacro’, but macro expansion occurs only if the call to
>  FUNC is compiled (i.e., not interpreted)."

`cl-define-compiler-macro` is built on top of the "new" ELisp compiler
macro feature.  I think that feature is documented vaguely (poorly?)
enough that it does allow expansion (or not) for interpreted code.

> C-j is bound to eval-print-last-sexp, which I wouldn't expect to compile
> anything, and its doc string doesn't mention anything AFAICS.  Not sure if
> that's a bug in the code or something missing in the docs.

Trying to distinguish those calls to `macroexpand-all` which come from
the compiler from those that come from elsewhere doesn't seem worth the
trouble, so I'd rather consider it as a doc bug.

The doc should also make it clear that contrary to `defmacro` there is
no guarantee that it will be called (nor *when* it's called).


        Stefan






  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-08 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-31 13:22 bug#60450: 30.0.50; Strange behavior of compiler macros in *scratch* Gerd Möllmann
2022-12-31 14:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-01  6:34   ` Gerd Möllmann
2023-05-08  1:59 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-05-08 11:29   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-08 12:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-05-18  6:33   ` Gerd Möllmann

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