Re: Passing result of macroexpand-all as argument to a function

[Heime]

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On Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 at 2:26 PM, Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> wrote:


> On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 9:04 PM Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 at 1:37 PM, Pierre Rouleau 
> > prouleau001@gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 8:22 PM Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > 3- If #2 is not clear, reading a LISP tutorial will help. Investing time
> > > reading on LISP and Emacs Lisp will help a lot.
> > 
> > I am going to pass
> 
> 
> What does "I am going to pass" mean, please?
> 
> I hope that it does not mean "I do not want to read the manual". (Or
> were you saying that you do not want to explain your problem, or
> perhaps you object to quoting lisp forms to pass them around?)
> 
> I ask because, in my view, it is not acting kindly toward those who
> read the list and attempt to help people, that you would refuse to
> read the documentation. In fact, it initially strikes me as rather
> rude to depend only on others to personally explain solutions (to
> problems that you do not define). Especially so when I consider you
> are depending on the rest of us to read the documentation (source,
> this list, etc), in order to know something you don't. I hope this
> helps to make clear why I found your "I am going to pass" remark so
> exceptional as to comment on it, choosing in this case to completely
> ignore the context of whatever it is that you might want to know.

Seems that ignoring the context has became a habit of yours !