From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "defmacro" and "local variables" and "let" and "nconc" strange behaviour...
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:18:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw256u9l.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k3rh6uez.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com
On 2013-01-13, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> I wrote simple macro:
>
> (defmacro my-filter (pred list)
> "Construct list with elements from LIST which satisfy PRED."
> (let ( (r (make-symbol "r_")) )
> `(let ( (,r '(nil)) )
> (mapc (lambda (item)
> (when (,pred item)
> (nconc ,r (cons item nil))))
> ,list)
> (cdr ,r))))
>
> When I evaluate several times:
>
> (my-filter (lambda (x) x) '(1 nil "a"))
>
> I get sequentially:
>
> (1 "a")
> (1 "a" 1 "a")
> (1 "a" 1 "a" 1 "a")
> (1 "a" 1 "a" 1 "a" 1 "a")
>
> When I eval:
>
> (pp (macroexpand '(my-filter (lambda (x) x) '(1 nil "a"))))
>
> I get:
>
> (let
> ((r_
> '(nil 1 "a" 1 "a" 1 "a" 1 "a" 1 "a" 1 "a" 1 "a" 1 "a")))
> (mapc
> (lambda
> (item)
> (when
> ((lambda
> (x)
> x)
> item)
> (nconc r_
> (cons item nil))))
> '(1 nil "a"))
> (cdr r_))
>
> Why instead of '(nil) I get something else?
I found fix by changing '(nil) to (list nil). Please explain why first variant
fail?
--
Best regards!
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2013-01-13 14:15 "defmacro" and "local variables" and "let" and "nconc" strange behaviour Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-01-13 14:18 ` Oleksandr Gavenko [this message]
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2013-01-14 9:04 ` jack-mac
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2013-01-13 14:21 ` Barry Margolin
2013-01-13 15:00 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-01-13 16:45 ` Le Wang
2013-01-13 17:25 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
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