Re: [elpa] externals/auctex cb0a1e6be1 72/77: Improve function calls to retrieve key=vals in style hooks

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  > FWIW, replacing `apply` with `eval` is not an "Improve"ment in my
  > book :-) It means now that `key-val-alist` contains code represented as
  > data (i.e. code to which flymake, the compiler, the eager macroexpander,
  > etc... don't have access) whereas it previously only contains values
  > (which can't contain code that needs macroexpansion, for example).

+1.

It is cleaner for a hook-like variable to contain a function with
arguments to pass to it, than to contain an expression.

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