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Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables
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Tomas Zerolo |
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Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables |
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Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:37:29 +0100 |
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:12:40PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
[...]
> > Thanks for the explanation. There's a lot of strange things in
> > elisp--mostly around compilation and evaluation--that I don't understand
> > and every little bit helps. Maybe another reading of these sections in
> > the elisp manual will make more sense now.
>
> Actually this difference between macros and functions applies to 99% of
> all languages.
Yes, but for a big proportion of those 99% your theorem applies trivially
(there are no macros), and for the rest... in most of thenm macros look
so utterly different from the rest of the language that this is a
non-issue.
The Lisp way of macros is a very special beast indeed.
Regards
-- tomas
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Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables, Bill Wohler, 2005/12/30
- Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables, Stefan Monnier, 2005/12/30
- Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/31
- Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables, David Kastrup, 2005/12/31
- Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables, Chong Yidong, 2005/12/31
- Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables, David Kastrup, 2005/12/31