CL implementation questions

[Charles Turner]

Thanks, it's much more clear how to start now. :-)

On 1 April 2012 05:10, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
> On 03/31/2012 01:25 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
>> - Macro forms cannot expand into DECLARE exprs.
>
> Why not?

>From the CLHS:

"Macro forms cannot expand into declarations; declare expressions must
appear as actual subexpressions of the form to which they refer."
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_declar.htm

There's also some discussion about it in CLTL (I'm aware it's out-of-date)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node104.html
about two pages down.

Thanks again,
Charles.