>
> Perhaps I'm ruining some didactic exercise here, but if you're using
> eval on something you don't want eval'd until the function is run, you
> should backquote it. This works for me:
>
>
> (defun functionmaker (name form)
>  (eval
>   `(defun ,name ()
>      ,form)))
>
> I used to associate backquoting exclusively with macros, but I think
> that was wrong thinking.
>
> Hope someone will correct me if I've done something dumb here…
>


Wow .. .This worked as I was wanting ... Could you please point me to some
documentation that would help me with things like, when to use "," in front
of the name etc?

Regards,
Kashyap