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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Evaluate or execute?
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 22:05:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o87egp89.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cznup5h3.fsf@tsdye.online>


On Sun, Oct 24 2021, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> The org manual and various documents on Worg appear to use the subject terms as
> synonyms for running a bit of source code and gathering its result.  Is there a
> useful distinction that this non-software engineer is missing?  Or, are the
> terms simply synonymous?

To me, the term "evaluate" suggests that the piece of code returns a value that
one is interested in, while "execute" suggest that the code has some side effect
and doesn't return a value (or one that is ignored). Though I doubt this is a
very firm distinction that is strictly adhered to. For practical purposes, you
can probably consider them synonymous.

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-24 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-24 19:50 Evaluate or execute? Thomas S. Dye
2021-10-24 20:04 ` Tim Cross
2021-10-24 20:05 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2021-10-24 20:14 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2021-10-24 20:31 ` Thomas S. Dye

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