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Re: Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 09:22:45 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> Probably bad and slow for some Lisps with compiler, but for interpreted
> Lisps (as long as users can't abuse it)?

The reason eval is evil has nothing to do with performance: it's
a software engineering issue.  It's kind of like using nconc instead of
append, except magnified many times.


        Stefan




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