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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Placement of defines
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:57:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqph42xd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8wqdqq1i.fsf@vps203.linuxvps.org

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:

> Incidentally, perhaps you can tell me why the first argument to this
> compile-friendly macro has to be a string for it to work.
>
>  guile> (define-macro (definer var val)
>           `(define ,var ,val))
>  guile> (definer 'foo "bar")
>
> appears to have worked, but...
>
>  guile> foo
>  ERROR: Unbound variable: foo
>  ABORT: (unbound-variable)

Try this:

  (definer foo "bar")

Thanks,
Ludo'.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-18 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cmu-lmtpd-18264-1229620135-1@mail-imap1.uio.no>
2008-12-18 17:31 ` Placement of defines Kjetil S. Matheussen
2008-12-18 18:47   ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-12-18 20:57     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2008-12-19 11:18       ` Sebastian Tennant
     [not found] <cmu-lmtpd-21674-1229672512-0@mail-imap1.uio.no>
2008-12-19 17:10 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2008-12-27 15:19   ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-12-18 17:00 Sebastian Tennant

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