From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 15296@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15296: 24.3.50; A macro object does not necessarily have `lambda' as its cadr
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 22:39:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d69314c-7324-4751-b7c2-ee1a26645afb@default> (raw)
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?)
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. The macro is then a list whose car is `macro'
but whose cdr is byte code, AFAICT. So this will not work, for example:
(defun macro-p (obj)
(and (fboundp obj)
(let ((def (symbol-function obj)))
(and (consp def)
(eq (car def) 'macro)
(eq (cadr def) 'lambda)))))
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2013-08-23 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 113986 rgm@gnu.org-20130823185841-zoy6h1qk433ibrlf
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib
CPPFLAGS=-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'
next reply other threads:[~2013-09-07 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-07 5:39 Drew Adams [this message]
2013-09-07 11:34 ` bug#15296: 24.3.50; A macro object does not necessarily have `lambda' as its cadr Michael Heerdegen
2013-09-07 14:23 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-08 18:01 ` Stefan Monnier
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