Re: Difficult macro question: Doing custom `let'

[bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)]

jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:

> I'm trying to make a custom `let' macro. The basic idea is that the
> variables defined inside `let' should be user defined and the `let'
> form simply should set them to nil. Something like:

,----[ C-h f progv RET ]
| progv is a Lisp macro in `cl-macs'.
| (progv SYMBOLS VALUES &rest BODY)
| 
| Bind SYMBOLS to VALUES dynamically in BODY.
| The forms SYMBOLS and VALUES are evaluated, and must evaluate to lists.
| Each SYMBOL in the first list is bound to the corresponding VALUE in the
| second list (or made unbound if VALUES is shorter than SYMBOLS); then the
| BODY forms are executed and their result is returned.  This is much like
| a `let' form, except that the list of symbols can be computed at run-time.
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Johan Bockgård