Re: eval, backquote, compilation
Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Julian Bradfield:
Aidan wrote:
>The particular incantation you want here is:
>
> (eval-when-compile code to construct regexp )
>
>This is equivalent to a progn call when interpreted, but at compilation the
>value the code returned is used as a byte code constant, just as a literal
>string would be.
>
>A related form is #'load-time-value, which is also equivalent to #'progn
>when interpreted, but is called once on load of a file and its return value
>saved to avoid recalculation each time a function is called.
Thanks.
Is there a reason to prefer eval-when-compile to load-time-value ?
Things are a little faster for the user with eval-when-compile, there’s no
calculation at runtime or at load time.
If GNU compatibility matters to you, load-time-value is provided by the CL
package, and is thus not universally available there. (Putting
(eval-when-compile (require 'cl)) at the start of the file is endorsed by
GNU and will make #'load-time-value work, though.)
The latter presumably works in both uncompiled and compiled code, so
why would I use the former?
The latter is *equivalent to progn* in interpreted (= uncompiled) code, so
it doesn’t quite do what you might expect.
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