From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Evaluate or execute?
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:04:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2o87exjts.fsf@blind-drunk.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cznup5h3.fsf@tsdye.online>
"Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online> writes:
> Aloha all,
>
> The org manual and various documents on Worg appear to use the subject terms as
> synonyms for running a bit of source code and gathering its result. Is there a
> useful distinction that this non-software engineer is missing? Or, are the
> terms simply synonymous?
>
I suspect that in some domains, there is probably a subtle difference
between evaluate and execute, but when reading information on org, I
think your pretty safe to consider them as synonymous. You need to
evaluate a statement in order to execute it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-24 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-24 19:50 Evaluate or execute? Thomas S. Dye
2021-10-24 20:04 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2021-10-24 20:05 ` Joost Kremers
2021-10-24 20:14 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2021-10-24 20:31 ` Thomas S. Dye
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