From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp macros problem Date: 26 Jul 2004 07:55:21 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090821438 21590 80.91.224.253 (26 Jul 2004 05:57:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 05:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 07:57:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BoyU5-0005Uo-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:57:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BoyX6-00089n-Cy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:00:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.lang.lisp Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 9XVb52nLi+sAHRjkyb86QAy/8EhA9wxZhb4VWQOjvM8zp8N2OT X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124459 comp.lang.lisp:144209 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19795 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19795 Lowell Kirsh writes: > Why does this not work: > > (defmacro my-add-hooks (hooks &rest body) > `(dolist (hook ,hooks) > (my-add-hook hook ,@body))) > > ?? Because you need to write `(dolist (hook ',hooks) and then call this with an _unquoted_ list, like (my-add-hooks (lisp emacs-lisp) body) Apart from that, I consider this sort of thing a crock. What are you hoping to achieve that you would not be better off doing by a proper function instead of a macro? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum