From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 15296@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15296: 24.3.50; A macro object does not necessarily have `lambda' as its cadr
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 13:34:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjrozwzg.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d69314c-7324-4751-b7c2-ee1a26645afb@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 6 Sep 2013 22:39:58 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> AFAICT, (elisp) `Defining Macros' is the closest thing we have to doc
> telling you how to test whether a Lisp object is a macro. There is no
> `macro-p' predicate or similar in Emacs Lisp, unless I'm missing
> something. (Shouldn't there be?)
There is `macrop' in subr.el (since some months ago, I think).
> Anyway, this Elisp manual node says that a macro is a list whose car
> is `macro' and whose `cdr' is a lambda expression. That's not true if
> the `defmacro' was byte-compiled.
Confusing, indeed.
Michael.
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2013-09-07 5:39 bug#15296: 24.3.50; A macro object does not necessarily have `lambda' as its cadr Drew Adams
2013-09-07 11:34 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2013-09-07 14:23 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-08 18:01 ` Stefan Monnier
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