From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: "Samuel W. Flint" <swflint@flintfam.org>
Cc: Org-Mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why does evaluating a piece of Elisp code seemingly not expand a macro?
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:24:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pox2cwhm.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pox2mtuy.fsf@turing.flintfam.org>
On 2016-01-15, at 22:10, Samuel W. Flint <swflint@flintfam.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Marcin Borkowski writes:
>
> MB> This piece of code: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp :results value verbatim
> MB> :exports both (defmacro forty-two () (* 6 7))
>
> That is not a macro. That's a function. The return value of a macro
> (the result of the last expression in the implicit progn) needs to be a
> (quasi-)quoted expression.
IIUC, a macro is a function - a function returning a Lisp form.
> This macro simply evaluates to 42. This should be a function.
Yes, I wanted it to evaluate to 42. I expected the constant 42 in the
code. (And this is what happens if I evaluate these forms outside an
Org block.)
> If you want a macro, you could have:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC: emacs-lisp
> (defmacro forty-two ()
> '(* 6 7))
> #+END_SRC
>
> For what you want, you could have it be:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC: emacs-lisp
> (defmacro forty-two ()
> `,(* 6 7))
> #+END_SRC
But this is _not_ what I want! What I want is to understand the
difference between just C-M-x'ing these forms and evaluating them in
Org-mode.
> Sam
Regards,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-15 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-15 10:08 Why does evaluating a piece of Elisp code seemingly not expand a macro? Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-15 10:57 ` Oleh Krehel
2016-01-17 22:56 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-18 13:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-18 20:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-18 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-15 21:10 ` Samuel W. Flint
2016-01-15 22:06 ` Nick Dokos
2016-01-15 22:24 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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