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What is an anaphoric function / macro? I've seen this term floating around and I don't know what it means!
by bollu 4y ago
What is an anaphoric function / macro? I've seen this term floating around and I don't know what it means!
- iib 4y agoPage 189 of Paul Graham's "On Lisp" [1] introduces for the first time such a function. At least that is what I remember, and also what Wiki [2] seems to say. [1] http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro
- pmontra 4y agoNeither did I and so I searched for it and got prompted to post this offtopic reply (hopefully interesting for future debates on search engines.) I looked for anaphoric functions elisp on both DDD and Google. I believe that DDD uses Bing so TL;DR: Bing is not good at searching stuff, only basic queries. After maybe a couple of years of DDD I intuitively knew that I would have had to ask that question to Google.