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Re: CL implementation questions
- From: Charles Turner <chturne at gmail dot com>
- To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Cc: Kawa mailing list <kawa at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 12:05:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: CL implementation questions
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Thanks, it's much more clear how to start now. :-)
On 1 April 2012 05:10, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
> On 03/31/2012 01:25 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
>> - Macro forms cannot expand into DECLARE exprs.
>
> Why not?
>From the CLHS:
"Macro forms cannot expand into declarations; declare expressions must
appear as actual subexpressions of the form to which they refer."
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_declar.htm
There's also some discussion about it in CLTL (I'm aware it's out-of-date)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node104.html
about two pages down.
Thanks again,
Charles.