Re: ask for the value of several variables at once

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 11:09:11AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> tomas wrote:
> 
> >>     (defmacro echo-var (var)
> >>       `(list ,(symbol-name var) ,var) )
> >>     ;; (echo-var fill-column) ; ("fill-column" 47)
> >
> > That's a good first step. The question now is
> > whether to delegate the looping over the list
> > to a function or not.
> 
> I don't get it to work with the set functions
> and &rest. But I almost didn't write a single
> macro all my Elisp life! Some guys do it all
> the time and I suspect for them this task is
> all but trivial...

Ah, macro and varargs. You might take the "cheap" cop-out
and decree that your macro takes *one list* as argument
instead of a variable number of arguments. You'd be in good
company there (cf. the `let' special form). If you're a
perfectionist, more work might be involved (I've no ready
solution for you at the moment, sorry)

Cheers
- -- t
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