On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 08:01 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: > > > Now while this works it seems rather clunky, so I'm wondering if there > > is a more elegant way of doing this. Symbols look like they might > > help, but so far I've failed to make anything work. I've also failed > > with macros, but that's likely because I don't understand them yet. > > When a function is evaluated, its arguments are read, evaluated, and the > function is called with the unevaluated
I guess you meant evaluated here??? Richard > arguments, and the result of > that call is used. > > When a macro is evaluated, its arguments are read, the macro is called > with the unevaluated arguments, and the result of that call is > evaluated before use. > > It's just a matter of where the evaluation happens. With a function, it > is before the call, with a macro, it is after the call. That's all > there is to it. > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
