Re: Compiling a recursive macro

[Douglas Lewan]

On 6/12/20 6:49 AM, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > They are buffer-local. Definition of such a variable spans the tree of
> > buffers in question. I suppose I could just define them in the root
> > buffer, but then I'd also need to use a specialized getter instead of
> > the variable itself. The latter definitely seems preferable to me. If
> > there's a way to do this with emacs lisp's natural scoping, I'm more
> > than happy to learn.
> If you want to use local variables: `make-local-variable' makes a
> variable local in the current buffer, `make-variable-buffer-local'
> generally; both are functions (not special forms or macros).  And the
> getter is `buffer-local-value'; also a function.
>
> Michael.

Indeed. The macros I've written wrap (make-local-variable), but contain 
logic that reflects the structure that I'm working with. The package is 
intended to be generic, so expecting the user to rewrite the logic over 
and over seems inappropriate.

BTW both (make-local-variable) and (make-variable-buffer-local) are 
written in C, so they can have direct and transparent access to symbols. 
That's a luxury that mere emacs lisp programmers don't have with functions.

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,Doug
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