From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?xaB0xJtww6FuIE7Em21lYw==?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] loop over headlines in active region Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:08:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87d3ftiz11.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87obzpl3ec.fsf@gnu.org> <1314246334-5053-1-git-send-email-dmaus@ictsoc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwWwR-0003QB-OP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:13:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwWwQ-00049Q-WD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:13:43 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:47064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwWwQ-00049M-Rl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:13:42 -0400 Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so1928915fxg.0 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:13:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1314246334-5053-1-git-send-email-dmaus@ictsoc.de> (David Maus's message of "Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:25:29 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Maus Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:25:29 +0200 David Maus wrote: > As for the macro: What stop me to implement a macro for the generic > operation is that for now the macro would depend on the global > customization variable. That's not a problem per se but according to > my readings about macros (mostly in context of Common Lisp, but that > shouldn't matter) it should be considered bad style. Could you expand on this a bit? As far as I can tell, you obviously shouldn't depend on a customisation variable at macro expansion time, but I don't see how depending on it at run time is any different from a function doing the same. --=20 =C5=A0t=C4=9Bp=C3=A1n