Re: Macro vs Function

[David Kastrup]

"Herbert Euler" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> After reading defmacro and eval in eval.c, I conclude that, in
> Emacs Lisp, if I substitute "defmacro" at the beginning of
> definition of a macro with "defun" and quote each argument in the
> call the behavior of code will not be altered.  Is this correct?

No.  The macro is executed at function definition time, the function
at execution time.

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