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From: Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need help with a macro
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:20:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091116172045.GE29831@raven.wolf.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lji7h6ul.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net>

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:26:58PM +0000, Neil Jerram wrote:
> Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:
> > I am trying to work through the little schemer book. In order to make it
> > easier to go through the examples, I've come up with the following macro:
> > [ ... ]
> 
> The body of a define-macro definition is supposed to return the code
> that should be substituted in place of the original macro call.  With
> the newlines there, the body returns *unspecified*, because that is what
> (newline) returns.

OK, I think I see the problem now...

> Do you want those newlines to happen at macro-expansion time or eval
> time?  If the latter (which I would guess), the code that you want is
> 
> (define-macro (disp exp)
>   (display exp)   (newline)
>   `(begin
>      (display ,exp)
>      (newline)  (newline)))

Works great. Thanks!




      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-16 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-15 16:33 Need help with a macro Josef Wolf
2009-11-15 18:18 ` Andy Wingo
2009-11-16 17:40   ` Josef Wolf
2009-11-15 20:26 ` Neil Jerram
2009-11-16 17:20   ` Josef Wolf [this message]

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