Re: Compiling a recursive macro

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> That suggests to me that you can't compile any recursive macro.

Depends what you mean by "recursive macro".
What this prevents is to use a macro inside the definition of a macro.

Most cases of "recursive macros" instead just returns code which
itself uses that macro.  In that case, there's no real recursion: the
macro just returns a list which happens to include a symbol which has
the same name as the macro.  And then the macro-expander will end up
calling that macro back when it gets to macro-expanding that chunk
of code.
This works just fine (and may inf-loop, of course).


        Stefan