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Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions
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Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:45:32 +0000 |
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:53:23PM +0900, Geoff Gole wrote:
> > Also, in some cases you can't avoid lambda, namely when using computed
> > functions.
> Can't you avoid this with (add-hook 'hook (progn (fset symbol
> calculated-definition) symbol)) or similar?
Probably, yes. But who'd want to?
One of the reasons for using a lambda is to save having to think up a
function name, and to save cluttering up one's .emacs, or whatever.
Compare
(add-hook 'foo-mode-hook (lambda (some-minor-mode 1)))
with
(defun switch-some-minor-mode-on ()
(some-minor-mode 1))
(add-hook 'foo-mode-hook 'switch-some-minor-mode-on)
.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, (continued)
Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, David Reitter, 2009/03/04
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/03/04
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Stefan Monnier, 2009/03/04
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Geoff Gole, 2009/03/05
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, David Kastrup, 2009/03/05
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, tomas, 2009/03/05
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Geoff Gole, 2009/03/05
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Helmut Eller, 2009/03/05
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Stefan Monnier, 2009/03/05
- Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Geoff Gole, 2009/03/05
Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/05
Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Reiner Steib, 2009/03/05
Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Edward O'Connor, 2009/03/05
Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Reiner Steib, 2009/03/05
Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, David Kastrup, 2009/03/06
Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/05