eval, backquote, compilation

I realized that I don't really understand how byte compilation works. In particular: I have a function that involves matching against a long multi-case regexp, which is most easily constructed rather than spelt out, but which is constant. So what I'm doing currently is: (eval `(defun myfn (args) ... ,( code to construct regexp ) ... )) I have no idea how this interacts with byte-compilation. Does it "just work"? Or do I end up with a byte-compiled file that will have the main code of myfn uncompiled? If it doesn't "just work", what should I be doing? Thanks, Julian. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta