Re: elisp macros problem

[Lowell Kirsh]

Why does this not work:

(defmacro my-add-hooks (hooks &rest body)
  `(dolist (hook ,hooks)
      (my-add-hook hook ,@body)))

??

Lowell

Lowell Kirsh wrote:
> I am defining an emacs lisp macro to do:
>
> (my-add-hook 'lisp
>    ...)
>
> which should give:
>
> (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook
>   (lambda () ...))
>
> I have:
>
> (defmacro my-add-hook (hook &rest body)
>   (let ((tempvar (make-symbol "cat")))
>     `(flet ((,tempvar (sym str)
>                       (make-symbol (concat (symbol-name sym) str))))
>        (add-hook (cat ,hook "-mode-hook") (lambda () ,@body)))))
>
> Does anyone know what's wrong with this and why it doesn't work?
>
> Lowell