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Re: Problem using #!rest in defmacro
- From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- To: Are Meisfjord <are at meisfjord dot com>
- Cc: jason dot songhurst at valtech dot com, kawa at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:06:51 -0800
- Subject: Re: Problem using #!rest in defmacro
- References: <73120-220021231114303229@meisfjord.com>
Are Meisfjord wrote:
Thank you, that solved my problem!
(But I still don't understand why #!rest and #!optional won't work in
macros - they work with define and lambda.)
It's easy to explain. It's one of: They haven't been implemented
for defmacro, or there is a bug in the implementation.
The Common Lisp implementation especially needs a lot of work to
be minimally useful. And in terms of my own priorities, I spend
time on XQuery, then Scheme, them JEmacs. By the time I get to
Common Lisp there is no time left ...
That is not to say that I wouldn't enjoy getting the Common Lisp
implementation to at least the level of CLtL:1, but I can't
afford it.
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--Per Bothner
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