GNU bug report logs - #47862
26.3; (elisp) `Eval During Compile'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 04:11:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 47862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 47862 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47862: 26.3; (elisp) `Eval During Compile'
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:21:44 +0200

Am So., 18. Apr. 2021 um 06:11 Uhr schrieb Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>:
>
> This node says that `eval-when-compile' is a special form.
>
> However, `C-h f' says that it's a macro, defined in byte-run.el,
> and that's the case.  Please consider correcting the manual.
>

Could we instead redefine "special form" to mean "any form that
doesn't evaluate its arguments like a function does, no matter whether
it's implemented in C or as an ELisp macro"? It normally doesn't
matter for users how such forms are implemented.
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