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Re: befuddled user seeks help with defmacro

Eric Moore <moore@chem.cmu.edu> writes:

> so I have a few questions:
> a) is there a better way to do this?
> b) why does it work this way? 
> c) how could I make it work? (even if the answer to 'a' is yes, I'd
>    like to understand defmacro better ;)

for some reason, `defmacro' behaves weirdly when the quasiquoted form
is a `let'.  as a workaround, wrap w/ `begin'.  dunno why.

thi