RE: [External] : Re: Passing result of macroexpand-all as argument to a function

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > > So in practice, is it needed to quote or not the result of
> > > (macroexpand-all something arg) ?
> >
> > The result of the `macroexpand-all' call is an expression (i.e. a list
> > most the time). Just a normal list that happens to look like and being
> > usable as code.
> 
> Not according to Drew, who says I got to quote.

I misspoke (wrote).  You don't need to quote
in the example you presented - my bad.

I mistakenly thought you were needing to eval
something and quote the result for further
processing.  That's what the link I posted is
about: how to do that.

Sorry for adding to the confusion.

> In other words, you are saying that macroexpand-all gives me just a normal
> list
> which is not evaluated before being passed to the function. Correct ?
> 
> And then having a function defined as so
> 
> (defun myfunc (expr bfname)
> 
> and calling
> 
> (myfunc (macroexpand-all something arg) bfname)
> 
> will handle bfname properly.  It will not pick up anything from
> the macroexpand-all data.  Am I right ?

Yes.