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Re: Proposing "alist" macro
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Noam Postavsky |
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Re: Proposing "alist" macro |
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Wed, 5 Sep 2018 10:05:10 -0400 |
On 5 September 2018 at 09:16, Van L <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> LGTM, but couldn't it be a function?
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>>> A macro does not needlessly eval the args.
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>> The proposed macro expansions do eval all the args.
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> The eval occurs after the macro expansion, right? that is why there is the
> defmacro.
Correct, the expressions passed to the macro are evaluated exactly
once at runtime. Exactly the same as if it was a defun.