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Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112347: * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi


From: Leo Liu
Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112347: * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (defcustom, defun, simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review, save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macros rather than special forms. (Bug#13853)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:39:58 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (OS X 10.8.3)

On 2013-04-21 20:01 +0800, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
>   * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (defcustom, defun,
>   simplified-beginning-of-buffer, defvar, Building Robots, Review,
>   save-excursion): `defun' and `defcustom' are now macros rather than
>   special forms. (Bug#13853)

"special form" is a better term than "macro". It signals the reader that
the form has special evaluation rule. How the special form is
implemented is details readers need not care about. Please don't change
a clearly written text to worse.

Leo



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