Re: understanding backquote

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Olaf Rogalsky <olaf.rogalsky@aol.de> writes:

> Pascal J. Bourguignon writes:
>
>>> Is there a way to evaluate parts of a defun during read-time or
>>> byte-compile-time?
>>
>> In emacs lisp, there's no way to evaluate anything at read-time.
> In my use case, computing the constant expression at run time has only
> very litle performance overhead, so I guess, I will go along this path.
> Still sad, that it is not possible to do it at read or compile time.

You can still do it long before it's needed.

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