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Re: Constructing code template systems


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Constructing code template systems
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:36:53 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

John Haman wrote:

>> code template systems
>
> Like macros?

There are macros in Elisp and they are code that produce code,
this makes them more difficult to write and debug, I'm unsure
what the advantages are but there are certain occasions where
it is practical to do, someone else has to fill you in on
those typical cases ...

There are also keyboard macros that are really poor-man's
programming. In the real world, while it is okay to be poor,
in the sense it doesn't, or shouldn't make your life any less
valuable to you or anyone else, it certainly isn't cool to be
poor and in the Elisp world, where programming is free of
charge, there is even less reason to ...

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