[Openmcl-devel] macroexpand-all

[Ron Garret]

This is defined in CL to be a symtax error.  The head of a form can be a symbol or a lambda expression but not a macro.  You will notice that not only does this code not macroexpand, it won’t run either.

It is possible to tweak macroexpand-all and the CCL compiler so that both accept ((…) …) syntax.  I’ve attached the code to do the latter; the former is left as an exercise.

rg

On Jun 24, 2014, at 4:39 AM, Taoufik Dachraoui <dachraoui.taoufik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Is there a reason why macroexpand-all does not expand macros placed in the
> head of a list:
> 
> ? (defmacro g (x y) `(lambda (,x) ,y))
> G
> ? (macroexpand-all '((g x (+ x 1)) 3))
> ((G X (+ X 1)) 3)
> 
> What if it is the case what could be the issue?
> 
> -Taoufik
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