From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hypothetical question about macros
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:57:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipug2ml3.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 27b70c81-5057-435e-8304-e400fa8e00d2@w9g2000prg.googlegroups.com
* 2011-04-14T16:33:15-07:00 * Alan wrote:
> If there were some reason not to have to resort to using "progn" I
> don't see how to do so.
You can have almost any kind of code in a macro definition, but note
that a macro is single expressions in source code and it also expands to
a single expression. If you need several commands (imperative-speaking)
in the expanded code you need to wrap them.
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2011-04-14 23:33 hypothetical question about macros Alan
2011-04-15 3:57 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2011-04-15 4:24 ` Tim X
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