Re: how to add button to emacs that play a elisp code

[Renato Pontefice]

Il giorno venerdì 12 settembre 2014 04:07:37 UTC+2, Emanuel Berg ha scritto:
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
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> > You may argue that you can avoid destructive
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> > operations like `nconc' in your code to prevent that
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> > problem.
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> I was just about to say that - almost. While I don't
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> think side effects are bad by definition, and I
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> disklike the whole functional paradigm crusade with the
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> Haskell hysteria and all, in practise it makes sense
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> most of the time.
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> But that is more related to your specific example than
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> to the problem, right?
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> > But that isn't enough either: when you pass your list
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> > to some function you didn't define yourself (e.g. a
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> > function that is part of Emacs), it is passed as
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> > reference (as usual in Lisp), and it may be modified
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> > by that function by side effect, so that your program
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> > "changes" too.
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> > If you are not aware of that problem, it probably
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> > won't bite you often, but when it does, you'll need a
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> > lot of time to find out what's actually going on.
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> > BTW, this "effect" can also be used constructively,
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> > it's not "harmful" per se.
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> No, I have lots of quoted, and even backquoted stuff,
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> which would have showed its harmful side by now, so I
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> suppose I have been using it either "constructively" or
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> where it doesn't matter which.
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> By the way - computer science silly buzzword:
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> idempotence, or "referential transparency".
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> -- 
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> underground experts united

Hi,
I've read he most part of the thread, but, 
as one who does not know elisp,I got lost in the debate :-(
wich is the prob on the execution of my (your) code, pressing the key:

(global-set-key (kbd "M-A") 'backward-word) ; Alt+Shift+a
(while (and (not (eobp))
            (search-forward "[-" nil 'move))
  (skip-chars-forward "A-Z")
  (unless (looking-at "-]")
    (message "Problem found, please fix and hit C-M-c to continue")
    (recursive-edit))))

?

thank you

Renato