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Re: Typo: .substr in pmacros.texi is .substring in pmacros.scm


Hans-Peter Nilsson writes:
 > > Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:05:29 -0500
 > > From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
 > 
 > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 07:57:08PM +0100, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
 > > > It would IMHO be very useful if .sym-built symbols were
 > > > .pmacro-expanded, as I initially thought.  [...]
 > > 
 > > I see this sort of recursive macro-expansion could be useful.
 > > Does someone have an argument against it?
 > 
 > I didn't see any argument against it, except for the comment in
 > the code.  This works for my simple command-line examples
 > including the one in the comment but beware of the scheme/CGEN
 > newbie.  (Is this an ok way to compose ChangeLog entries for
 > nested defines?)
 > 
 > !       ; ??? We use to re-examine `result' to see if it was another pmacro
 > !       ; invocation.  This allowed doing things like ((.sym a b c) arg1 arg2)
 > !       ; where `abc' is a pmacro.  Scheme doesn't work this way, so it was
 > !       ; removed.  It can be put back should it ever be warranted.

I'm apprehensive, but if people want to try this go ahead.

If people start getting into trouble because of this I hope they share their
experience.


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