From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62756 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: use of (defvar ) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:51:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87lkuhdsyb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87bqvas2ls.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87acas6jvd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144947112 21337 80.91.229.2 (13 Apr 2006 16:51:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:51:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 13 18:51:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FU52h-0004vz-8r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:51:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FU52g-0007R3-T6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:51:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FU52V-0007Qy-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FU52S-0007QV-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:51:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FU52S-0007QS-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:51:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.158.120.143] (helo=mail.ukfsn.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FU57o-0000l7-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (84-45-211-153.no-dns-yet.enta.net [84.45.211.153]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C967DE7067; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:47:50 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from fx by localhost with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FU52S-0003oc-6o; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:51:24 +0100 Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Draft-From: ("nnml:Misc" 589) In-Reply-To: <87acas6jvd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:42:58 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52836 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62756 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > No, go check bytecomp.el: the code in eval-when-compile is first compiled; > then the resulting byte-code is evaluated and then the resuting value goes > through the normal processing. I beg your pardon. Either I never knew how it works or, more likely, I forgot from when there were issues in that area. Then the documentation is at best misleading in just saying that `The result of the body appears to the compiler as a quoted constant.'