GSOC | Extending Common Lisp support

Jamison Hope jrh@theptrgroup.com
Mon May 28 04:48:00 GMT 2012


On May 26, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Charles Turner wrote:

> By the way, is DEFMACRO "safe" to use in CL? I remember
> Per asking users to stop using it in Scheme (which makes sense given
> the generative facilities there). DEFMACRO appears to work OK for some
> simple macros, but is it known that DEFMACRO contains some dragons in
> Kawa?


I really don't know. Per?

A related question: How well does Kawa's current implementation of  
defmacro
conform to the CLHS spec?

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