Re: Org-store-link in Gnus summary fails

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> >> (eval-when-compile
>> >>   (require 'gnus-sum)
>> >>   (require 'nnheader)
>> >>   (require 'nnir))
>> >
>> > Hmm, can then somebody who can reproduce the error please make a bug
>> > report?
>>
>> It's not really a mapcar/funcall problem: the mapcar is over
>> (org-store-link-functions), not over any Gnus macro. The function
>> `org-gnus-store-link' does use a bunch of Gnus macros, but not in a
>> funcall situation.
>
> For that kind of error to happen, it's enough to call the macro in the
> code somewhere.  This has nothing to do with `funcall'ing or
> `mapcar'ing.

Right, I just meant I think the OP was a bit off with the original error
report.

> If a macro is not known at compile time, the compiler turns the macro
> call into a function call.

I was wondering if that was the case. Thanks for the information, that's
useful to know!