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Re: macroexpand and progn
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: macroexpand and progn |
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Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:32:42 -0400 |
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> In other words it looks like it's not possible to macro define `progn'.
Quite likely, indeed. I'd expect trouble when trying to define macros
for any of the special forms.
> Does anyone know if this is so and if so why?
Because they're called *special*-forms? ;-)
To make it work reliably, you'd probably need hygienic macros or packages.
Stefan