From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving org-macro.el
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:22:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv98mdx4q.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2diffqi.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:47:49 +0200")
>> It seems to work on Org's own manual, but other than that I haven't gone
>> out of my way to test it.
> There were a few problems reported by the test suite that I tried to
> address. I also updated `org-lint', which didn't handle macro
> definitions as functions.
Thanks.
>> - It also changes the behavior when $N appears elsewhere than an
>> "expression context". E.g.:
>> #+macro: <name> (eval (let (($1 foo)) (bar)))
> This is not a valid macro definition anyway since placeholders are
> strings.
Indeed for this specific example it was invalid anyway, but I can
imagine some variations on the theme where it still lead to valid code.
>> #+macro: <name> (eval (fun-with "code $1"))
> I don't think this was valid previously either, for the same reason.
I'm pretty sure this could be made to do interesting things, tho it does
feel a bit like "exploiting a security hole" ;-)
>> I don't think it requires changes to the manual because the semantics
>> described in the manual is sufficiently incomplete that both the old and
>> the new semantics satisfy it.
>
> One noticeable effect is that empty or missing placeholders in macro
> call are now nil, instead of the empty string. This broke our internal
> macros (e.g., {{{n}}} and {{{property}}}) so I updated them.
Ah, indeed, that was indeed a more serious difference which I had missed
(I see in one of my tests failed to catch it just because `concat`
treats nil and "" in the same way).
> I mentioned it in the ORG-NEWS file, and applied your changes. We'll see
> how it goes.
Great, thanks.
BTW, macros of the form
#+macro FOO (lambda ...)
would lead to much simpler code on `org-macro.el` ;-)
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-16 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-11 17:17 Improving org-macro.el Stefan Monnier
2021-04-16 14:47 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-04-16 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-04-16 22:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-17 9:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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