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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of macro
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:23:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeirnng6a2.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY112-F6041A897C6A278835FE51DA920@phx.gbl> (Herbert Euler's message of "Tue, 30 May 2006 16:56:56 +0800")

"Herbert Euler" <herberteuler@hotmail.com> writes:

> Is the following in Emacs a expected behavior of macro?
>
>    (defmacro m1 (v)
>      (let ((len (length (eval v))))
>        `(quote ,len)))
>         => m1
[...]
>    (m1 v)
>         => error: (wrong-type-argument sequencep v)

See (elisp)Eval During Expansion.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-30 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-30  8:56 Strange behavior of macro Herbert Euler
2006-05-30  9:34 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-30 10:23 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2006-05-30 10:31   ` Herbert Euler
2006-05-30 10:35     ` Andreas Schwab

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