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Subject: Re: Is it possible for a macro to expand to nothing?
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>> The general contract of a macro is that it returns valid forms.
>
> Sorry, Pascal, you're just restating the same thing again, not answering
> my question.  Why should I accept this "general contract of a macro"?  I
> haven't signed it.  ;-)  Is there some respected Lisp guru who says this?
> What would this guru say about the macro which generates a
> font-lock-defaults structure?

Perhaps you could ask this question on news:comp.lang.lisp ?

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__Pascal Bourguignon__