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* 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.