Re: A macro and an unwanted containing list in the resulting form

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:
>> Is there any reason to make the argument of build-cond an alist? You
>>could try
>>
>> (defmacro build-cond (&rest conds)
>>  (append '(cond)
>>          (mapcar '(lambda (each)
>>                    (cons (list 'equal 'my-var (car each)) (list (cdr each))))
>>                  conds)))
>>
>> and then use
>>
>>  (build-cond ("hello" . (message "hi"))
>>              ("goodbye" . (message "bye"))
>
> The reason for the alist is the clauses are being passed as one of a
> number of arguments to a function call.

If you get the a-list as argument to a function, then you don't need a
macro to process it!   Just write a loop!

(require 'cl)

(defun my-function (string clauses)
  (loop
      for clause in clauses
      until (string= string (car clause))
      finally (eval (cdr clause))))

(my-function "goodbye" '(("hello"   . (message "hi"))
                         ("goodbye" . (message "bye"))))


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