Re: thunk.el: Document that thunk-force == funcall?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>     (defalias 'thunk-function #'identity)

I like that idea.

> [ That's still pretty hypothetical.  ]
> I'd be curious to see concrete examples, to get a better idea of
> the tradeoffs.

I don't have any concrete real-life examples.  Only the one somewhat
unconventional that led me to this question:

I had been implementing my own improved version of `dired-mark-sexp'.
It offers some more boolean valued tests, and some are a bit more
expensive and partly interdepend, so I made them thunks.  When the input
expression is evaluated these are made accessible as functions.

I would rather do this via `thunk-let' and make these tests available as
contents of certain variables but then the repeated macroexpansion
slowed down the thing too much.


Regards,

Michael.