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Re: [External] : Re: Why is defun not executed during load-file?


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Why is defun not executed during load-file?
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 04:56:11 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Drew Adams wrote:

>> Also, writing macros compared to writing functions
>> typically involves more bugs...
>
> Why do you think so? [...]

Maybe because it involves an extra layer, writing something
that will write something that will do something instead of
writing something that will do something...

> But what evidence is there?

Just keep on adding layers. Write something to write something
to write something ... etc. It gets more difficult for each
level added, is what we think.

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