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Re: [elpa] externals/auctex cb0a1e6be1 72/77: Improve function calls to
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [elpa] externals/auctex cb0a1e6be1 72/77: Improve function calls to retrieve key=vals in style hooks |
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Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:53 -0400 |
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> FWIW, replacing `apply` with `eval` is not an "Improve"ment in my
> book :-) It means now that `key-val-alist` contains code represented as
> data (i.e. code to which flymake, the compiler, the eager macroexpander,
> etc... don't have access) whereas it previously only contains values
> (which can't contain code that needs macroexpansion, for example).
+1.
It is cleaner for a hook-like variable to contain a function with
arguments to pass to it, than to contain an expression.
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