Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com> writes: > On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 08:01 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: >> >> > Now while this works it seems rather clunky, so I'm wondering if there >> > is a more elegant way of doing this. Symbols look like they might >> > help, but so far I've failed to make anything work. I've also failed >> > with macros, but that's likely because I don't understand them yet. >> >> When a function is evaluated, its arguments are read, evaluated, and the >> function is called with the unevaluated > > I guess you meant evaluated here???
Whoever was sitting at my keyboard better would have meant "evaluated". >> arguments, and the result of >> that call is used. >> >> When a macro is evaluated, its arguments are read, the macro is called >> with the unevaluated arguments, and the result of that call is >> evaluated before use. >> >> It's just a matter of where the evaluation happens. With a function, it >> is before the call, with a macro, it is after the call. That's all >> there is to it. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
