Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The evaluation of a form (A B C) can follow the following two paths:
>> 
>> - if it's a macro:
>> 
>> (eval (macrocall A B C))
>> 
>> - if it's a function
>> 
>> (funcall A (eval B) (eval C))
>> 
>> Note how the function cannot delay the evaluation of its arguments.

> Thanks for the explanation. There's a lot of strange things in
> elisp--mostly around compilation and evaluation--that I don't understand
> and every little bit helps.  Maybe another reading of these sections in
> the elisp manual will make more sense now.

Actually this difference between macros and functions applies to 99% of
all languages.


        Stefan