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Re: Lexical binding and macros.


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: Lexical binding and macros.
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:10:43 -0500
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In article <mailman.40.1292017369.4804.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Alin Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr> wrote:

> Are the macros and closures equivalent ?

No.  Emacs Lisp has macros, it doesn't have closures.  But in dialects 
of Lisp that have both, they're completely different.

> The set of macros is greater than the set of  closures?
> 
> The set of closures is greater than the set of macros?

These questions don't even make sense.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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