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On Sat, 02 Oct 2004, Joe Corneli wrote:


[...]

>  This macro works on single elements:
>  
>  (defmacro define-tex-symbol (name)
>    `(defun ,(intern (concat "tex-" name)) ()
>       (interactive)
>       (insert "\\" ,name)))
>  
>  E.g. (define-tex-symbol "alpha") ;=> tex-alpha
>  
>  But 
>  
>  (dolist (elt '("alpha"
>                 "beta"))
>    (define-tex-symbol elt))
>  
>  triggers an error:
>  
>  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument sequencep elt)
>    concat("tex-" elt) (intern (concat "tex-" name)) (list (quote defun)
>    (intern (concat "tex-" name)) nil (quote (interactive)) (list (quote
>    insert) "\\" name))
>  ...
>  
>  There seem to be some subtleties associated with macro expansion
>  that I'm missing here.  Help would be appreciated.

Try:

(dolist (elt '("alpha"
               "beta"))
  (eval `(define-tex-symbol ,elt)))

Do not know if there are other and better solutions but this works!

Ciao,
Klaus

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