Re: elisp macros problem

[Lowell Kirsh]

A crock? Now that I've got that macrology out of the way, does not

(my-add-hooks (emacs-lisp lisp lisp-interaction)
  (fun foo))

look better than

(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook
   (lambda () (fun foo)))

(add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook
   (lambda () (fun foo)))

(add-hook ....


I think it does :)

Lowell

David Kastrup wrote:

> Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
>
>
> > Why does this not work:
> >
> > (defmacro my-add-hooks (hooks &rest body)
> >   `(dolist (hook ,hooks)
> >       (my-add-hook hook ,@body)))
> >
> > ??
>
>
> Because you need to write
> `(dolist (hook ',hooks)
>
> and then call this with an _unquoted_ list, like
> (my-add-hooks (lisp emacs-lisp)
>   body)
>
> Apart from that, I consider this sort of thing a crock.  What are you
> hoping to achieve that you would not be better off doing by a proper
> function instead of a macro?