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   Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 23:26:29 JST Ramin Honary

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   • HoldMyType

   The question pretty much says it all: I have a string containing the source code for a valid Elisp expression, and I would like to evaluate it.

   @xameer it’s funny, because the answer to this question for Emacs Lisp is the same as most other Lisp dialects, and as far as I know, has been the same answer since 1958:

   (eval (read "..."))

   To take it a step further and make a read-eval-print loop, it is simply:

   (while (not (eq :quit (prin1 (eval (read))))))

   Or equivalently:

   (defalias 'print 'prin1) (defmacro loop (expr) `(while (not (eq :quit ,expr)))) (loop (print (eval (read)))) ;; enter ":quit" to quit the loop

   Hence the name “REPL”.

   #computer #software #lisp #LispLang

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     HoldMyType (xameer@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 23:26:30 JST HoldMyType

     #elisp in strings
     So can I write like these 2 functions in 2 files and import function file to main block as a module?
     https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/19877/how-to-evaluate-elisp-code-contained-in-a-string

     Alfred M. Szmidt repeated this.