Re: How to put this in a macro

["José A. Romero L." <escherdragon@gmail.com>]

On 17 Kwi, 17:14, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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> > possible at all) asking for trouble -- what would happen when foo  is
> > nil, or 5?
>
> My macro requires that the parameters be variables, not expressions.

You're right. Emacs is actually smarter than I thought and won't let
you pass anything but variables to the call.

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> > i.e. passing the symbols of the variables you want to set.
>
> If you call it like that, it can be a function, not a macro.
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It can be a function or a macro, whatever you prefer, though I do
agree your version is definitely better.

Cheers,
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José A. Romero L.
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