Strange error output for undefined macros inside macros

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Per Bothner wrote:

> Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>>
>>  When evaluating the following
>>
>>  "
>>  (define-macro (foo)
>>    (foobar))
>>  (define-macro (foobar)
>>    (display 520))
>>  (foo)
>>  "
>>
>>  I get the following error:
>>
>>  "Argument  (#<macro foobar>) to 'apply-to-args' has wrong type
>>  (kawa.lang.Macro) (expected: procedure)"
>>
>>  It took me a long time to figure out that foobar needed to be evaluated
>>  before foo. (of course, I didn't have this small example then. :-) )
>>
>>  Perhaps it would be better to say something like "The foobar macro needs
>>  to be defined before defining foo" instead?
>
> That might be difficult.  It might be possible to say something like:
>   macro was not processed at compile-time
>

Okay, I figured it might have been easy since it knows that foobar is a 
macro.


> In any case, define-macro is *strongly* deprecated.  Don't use it.
> I should probably have it cause a warning ...


Is defmacro okay?

And in case, can I do this?

(defmacro define-macro (def . body)
   `(defmacro ,(car def) ,(cdr def) ,@body))

:-)