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"Herbert Euler" <herberteuler@hotmail.com> writes:

> Is the following in Emacs a expected behavior of macro?
>
>    (defmacro m1 (v)
>      (let ((len (length (eval v))))
>        `(quote ,len)))
>         =3D> m1
[...]
>    (m1 v)
>         =3D> error: (wrong-type-argument sequencep v)

See (elisp)Eval During Expansion.

Andreas.

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