From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (interactive) arguments
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 11:28:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwoa7nq7w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 084E75E0-B343-4747-AE7E-F0DCF8B7F992@traduction-libre.org
> Now, when I use the "expression" version, it looks like the arguments are
> not assigned to variables as they are input, so for ex, I can't use
> a default value for the input based on the first input...
That was my whole point of describing it as "expression" rather than
"list": it is really an arbitrary Elisp *expression* whose evaluation
simply returns the list of arguments to pass to the function.
So it doesn't have to look like
(list ...)
but can be anything else like
(my-function-to-return-the-list-of-args)
or
(let* ((x1 e1) (x2 e2) ...) (append e3 e4))
or
...
-- Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-04 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-31 3:50 (interactive) arguments Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-01 15:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-01 16:26 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-02 16:08 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-02 16:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-02 16:42 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-02 16:57 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-02 18:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-04 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-01-04 17:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
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