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Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> In article <cduad9$7tg$1@mughi.cs.ubc.ca>,
>  Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> 
> > I am defining an emacs lisp macro to do:
> > 
> > (my-add-hook 'lisp
> >     ...)
> > 
> > which should give:
> > 
> > (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook
> >    (lambda () ...))
> > 
> > I have:
> > 
> > (defmacro my-add-hook (hook &rest body)
> >    (let ((tempvar (make-symbol "cat")))
> >      `(flet ((,tempvar (sym str)
> >                        (make-symbol (concat (symbol-name sym) str))))
> >         (add-hook (cat ,hook "-mode-hook") (lambda () ,@body)))))
> > 
> > Does anyone know what's wrong with this and why it doesn't work?
> 
> You need to use ,tempvar in place of cat in the last line.

Then, (not (eq (make-symbol "toto")(make-symbol "toto"))), even on emacs lisp.
You should use intern!


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