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From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Possibility of using alternative separators in macros
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 21:21:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8dascw4.fsf@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s7gfc6$hj1$1@ciao.gmane.io>


Maxim Nikulin writes:

> On 03/05/2021 04:08, Christian Moe wrote:
[snip]
>> Something that would help, without adding new syntax, is
>> making macro expansion smart enough to *ignore* separators when the
>> macro definition contains only *one* argument anyway, as in the cases
>> above.
>
> I think, this is an idea of the best approach. Unsure concerning
> precise form. Maybe e.g. "$_" could expand into all arguments greater
> than maximum referenced number. No promise of forward compatibility of
> the following hack since it relies on undocumented implementation
> details.
>
> #+MACRO: allargshack (eval (format "- /%s/ :: %s" $1 (mapconcat
> #'identity _ ",")))
>
> {{{allargshack(one, two, three)}}}
>
> I do not know if Eric can swap order of arguments of his credits
> macro. Extracting namely last argument requires a bit more lisp code.


Yes, I didn't think that far. This would provide a comprehensive
backwards-compatible solution to the comma-escaping problem, though
perhaps not the most newbie-friendly one. It would also make macros more
flexible and powerful in the bargain (I'm sure people will think of
other uses for this than commas).

Yours,
Christian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-16 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-30 13:26 [PATCH] Possibility of using alternative separators in macros Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-01  8:30 ` Bastien
2021-05-01 10:04   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-05-01 10:17     ` Bastien
2021-05-01 10:18     ` Bastien
2021-05-01 21:50     ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-02 21:08       ` Christian Moe
2021-05-12 11:49         ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-16 19:21           ` Christian Moe [this message]
2021-05-17 17:03             ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-17 18:51               ` Christian Moe
2021-05-02 12:13     ` Eric S Fraga
2021-05-11 11:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-05-11 16:12   ` Juan Manuel Macías
     [not found]     ` <87im3prvz8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
2021-05-11 18:25       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-15 13:29         ` Bastien
2021-05-15 20:14           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-15 20:25             ` Bastien
2021-05-15 21:05               ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-16 12:17                 ` Bastien
2021-05-16 16:48                   ` Maxim Nikulin

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