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bug#47862: 26.3; (elisp) `Eval During Compile'
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Philipp Stephani |
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bug#47862: 26.3; (elisp) `Eval During Compile' |
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Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:21:44 +0200 |
Am So., 18. Apr. 2021 um 06:11 Uhr schrieb Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>:
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> This node says that `eval-when-compile' is a special form.
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> However, `C-h f' says that it's a macro, defined in byte-run.el,
> and that's the case. Please consider correcting the manual.
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Could we instead redefine "special form" to mean "any form that
doesn't evaluate its arguments like a function does, no matter whether
it's implemented in C or as an ELisp macro"? It normally doesn't
matter for users how such forms are implemented.